| name | finding-security-misconfigurations |
| description | Configure identify security misconfigurations in infrastructure-as-code, application settings, and system configurations.
Use when you need to audit Terraform/CloudFormation templates, check application config files, validate system security settings, or ensure compliance with security best practices.
Trigger with phrases like "find security misconfigurations", "audit infrastructure security", "check config security", or "scan for misconfigured settings".
|
| allowed-tools | Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash(config-scan:*), Bash(iac-check:*) |
| version | 1.29.0 |
| author | Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io> |
| license | MIT |
| tags | ["security","terraform","compliance","audit"] |
| compatibility | Designed for Claude Code, also compatible with Codex and OpenClaw |
Finding Security Misconfigurations
Overview
Scan infrastructure-as-code templates, application configuration files, and system settings to detect security misconfigurations mapped to OWASP A05:2021 (Security Misconfiguration) and CIS Benchmarks. Cover cloud resources (AWS, GCP, Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), web servers (Nginx, Apache), and application frameworks.
Prerequisites
- Infrastructure-as-code files accessible in
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/ (Terraform .tf, CloudFormation .yaml/.json, Ansible playbooks, Kubernetes manifests)
- Application configuration files available (
application.yml, config.json, .env.example, web.config)
- Container definitions (
Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml, Helm charts)
- Web server configs (
nginx.conf, httpd.conf, .htaccess) if applicable
- Write permissions for findings output in
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/security-findings/
- Optional:
tfsec, checkov, or trivy config installed for automated pre-scanning
Instructions
- Discover all configuration files by scanning
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/ for IaC templates (.tf, .yaml, .json, .template), application configs, container definitions, and web server configs.
- Cloud storage: check for publicly accessible S3 buckets, unencrypted storage accounts, missing versioning, and overly permissive bucket policies (CIS AWS 2.1.1, 2.1.2).
- Network security: flag security groups allowing
0.0.0.0/0 ingress on sensitive ports (22, 3389, 3306, 5432, 27017), missing VPC flow logs, and absent network segmentation.
- IAM and access: detect wildcard (
*) permissions in IAM policies, service accounts with admin privileges, missing MFA enforcement, and hardcoded credentials in source (CWE-798).
- Compute resources: identify EC2/VM instances with unnecessary public IPs, unencrypted volumes, missing IMDSv2 enforcement, and outdated base images.
- Database security: flag publicly accessible RDS/Cloud SQL instances, missing encryption at rest, disabled automated backups, default ports exposed without IP restrictions.
