Cosmos DB account does not restrict user access to data operations Affecting CosmosDB (DocumentDB) service in Azure
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IAM/ Usage
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Description
Account key-based write access to account data exposes sensitive configuration options to non-administrative accounts.
How to fix?
Set Properties.disableKeyBasedMetadataWriteAccess to true.
Set access_key_metadata_writes_enabled to false.
Example Configuration
resource "azurerm_cosmosdb_account" "allowed" {
name = "example-cosmodb-524v"
location = azurerm_resource_group.example524v.location
resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.example524v.name
offer_type = "Standard"
kind = "GlobalDocumentDB"
enable_automatic_failover = true
access_key_metadata_writes_enabled = false
consistency_policy {
consistency_level = "BoundedStaleness"
max_interval_in_seconds = 10
max_staleness_prefix = 200
}
geo_location {
location = "eastus"
failover_priority = 0
}
}