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MalDet · Static Security Report

terraform-provider-aws

github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws
Scanned 24 September 2026 at 06:01  ·  Report generated 29 October 2026  ·  Go  ·  11,095 stars
Overall assessment
Medium
Combined score 38  ·  64 findings after filtering

Summary

This repository has been flagged as having a medium vulnerability risk score of 28.0, which indicates that the code contains several insecure coding patterns an attacker could potentially exploit. While the overall malicious-pattern risk is low at 9.0, suggesting the code isn't intentionally harmful, there are specific issues that look more like ordinary mistakes than deliberate attacks. The scan found multiple instances of weak cryptographic hashes like SHA1 and MD5, which are outdated and should not be used for security purposes. Additionally, several lines of code appear to contain hardcoded passwords or sensitive tokens such as AWS credentials, which is a common error in production software rather than proof of malicious intent. There are also two high-severity YARA rules that detected the execution of encoded payloads and downloads followed by execution, but these were identified with very low confidence scores, meaning they likely represent false positives from test fixtures or scripts rather than active threats.

Written by a language model running locally on the scanning machine, from the findings in this report. The risk levels above and below were decided by the scoring model, not by this summary.

Risk, by type

MalDet scores two different questions separately, because they call for different responses: code can be badly written without being hostile, and hostile code is not always badly written.

Vulnerability
Medium (28)
Insecure coding an attacker could exploit. Usually mistakes, and usually fixable in place.
Malicious pattern
Low (9)
Signs the code may be trying to do harm: hidden payloads, credential access, persistence, exfiltration.

What each detector found

DetectorLooks for HighMediumLowTotal
bandit Insecure coding patterns in Python source 0 8 42 50
yara Signatures of malicious behaviour in source files 3 0 8 11
guarddog Malicious package and install-time behaviour 0 3 0 3

21 of 64 findings were rated more likely genuine than noise by the classifier.

Evidence

Identical findings are grouped, so a single rule firing many times takes one row. Ordered worst first. “Seen” is how many times that finding occurred.

SeverityDetectorFindingSeenExample location
high yara YARA rule matched: detect_base64_exec — Encoded payload decoded and then executed 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/credentials.py
high yara YARA rule matched: detect_download_and_execute — Downloads a remote resource AND executes it - the actually dangerous combination, not just downloading alone 2 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/vendored/six.py
medium guarddog Detects access to sensitive files (credentials, configs, keys) [threat-filesystem-read] 3 /internal/provider/framework/provider.go:155
medium bandit Use of weak SHA1 hash for security. Consider usedforsecurity=False 4 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/credentials.py:847
medium bandit Use of weak MD5 hash for security. Consider usedforsecurity=False 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/compat.py:162
medium bandit Audit url open for permitted schemes. Allowing use of file:/ or custom schemes is often unexpected. 1 /internal/service/sns/test-fixtures/lambda_confirm_sns_extracted/main.py:24
medium bandit Use of exec detected. 2 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/six.py:740
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: 'aws_secret_access_key' 3 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/credentials.py:1426
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: 'AWS_CONTAINER_AUTHORIZATION_TOKEN_FILE' 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/credentials.py:2074
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: 'colon' 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/jmespath/parser.py:234
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: '21600' 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/utils.py:398
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: 'number' 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/jmespath/parser.py:240
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: 'rbracket' 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/jmespath/parser.py:233
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: ' ' 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/dateutil/parser/_parser.py:122
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: 'h' 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/useragent.py:83
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: 'q' 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/useragent.py:89
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: 'AWSSecretKey' 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/credentials.py:1334
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: 'AWS_CONTAINER_AUTHORIZATION_TOKEN' 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/credentials.py:2073
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: 'AWS_WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE' 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/credentials.py:1883
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: 'AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY' 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/credentials.py:1189
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: 'latest/api/token' 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/utils.py:397
low bandit Using ElementTree to parse untrusted XML data is known to be vulnerable to XML attacks. Replace ElementTree with the equivalent defusedxml package, or make sure defusedxml.defuse_stdlib() is called. 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/serialize.py:49
low bandit Using xml.etree.ElementTree to parse untrusted XML data is known to be vulnerable to XML attacks. Replace xml.etree.ElementTree with the equivalent defusedxml package, or make sure defusedxml.defuse_stdlib() is called. 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/compat.py:87
low bandit Possible hardcoded password: 'None' 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/botocore/paginate.py:389
low bandit Consider possible security implications associated with the subprocess module. 2 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/dateutil/zoneinfo/rebuild.py:6
low bandit Starting a process with a partial executable path 1 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/dateutil/zoneinfo/rebuild.py:52
low bandit subprocess call - check for execution of untrusted input. 2 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/dateutil/zoneinfo/rebuild.py:62
low yara YARA rule matched: detect_downloader — Downloads a remote resource - common and low-signal alone; see detect_download_and_execute for the composite version 8 /.teamcity/scripts/pullrequest_tests/install_gh_cli.sh
low bandit Use of assert detected. The enclosed code will be removed when compiling to optimised byte code. 18 /internal/service/bedrockagentcore/test-fixtures/mcp_lambda_extracted/urllib3/util/ssltransport.py:160

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