Pipeline: 9.6 Ensure that 'Basic Authentication' is 'Disabled'

Description

Basic Authentication provides the ability to create identities and authentication for an App Service without a centralized Identity Provider. For a more effective, capable, and secure solution for Identity, Authentication, Authorization, and Accountability, a centralized Identity Provider such as Entra ID is strongly advised.

Basic Authentication introduces an identity silo which can produce privileged access to a resource. This can be exploited in numerous ways and represents a significant vulnerability and attack vector.

Remediation

From Azure Portal

Search for, and open App Services from the search bar.
For each App Service listed:
Click on the App Service name.
Under the Settings menu item, click on Configuration.
Under the General settings tab, scroll down to locate the two Basic Auth settings:

Set the SCM Basic Auth Publishing Credentials radio button to Off.
Set the FTP Basic Auth Publishing Credentials radio button to Off.

CAUTION: The new settings are not yet applied. Applying them may cause your App Service resource to restart - proceed with caution. Click the Save button, then click Continue to apply the updated configuration.

Repeat this procedure for each App Service.

Default Value

Both parameters for Basic Authentication (SCM and FTP) are set to On by default.

Run the pipeline

To run this pipeline from your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run azure_cis.pipeline.cis_v300_9_6

Use this pipeline

To call this pipeline from your pipeline, use a step:

step "pipeline" "step_name" {
  pipeline = azure_cis.pipeline.cis_v300_9_6  
}

Params

Name	Type	Required	Description	Default
database	connection.steampipe	Yes	Database connection string.	`connection.steampipe.default`
notifier	notifier	Yes	The name of the notifier to use for sending notification messages.	`notifier.default`
notification_level	string	Yes	The verbosity level of notification messages to send. Valid options are 'verbose', 'info', 'error'.	`info`
approvers	list(notifier)	Yes	List of notifiers to be used for obtaining action/approval decisions.	`notifier.default`

Outputs

This pipeline has no outputs.