AWS ALB recommendations for Intermediate and Modern need updating

[markstuart]

Intermediate

The awsalb 2019.8.1, intermediate config recommends using the "ELBSecurityPolicy-FS-1-2-Res-2019-08" for the listener ssl policy. That policy doesn't support TLS 1.3, but the intermediate config really should I think.

Matching the recommended protocols and ciphers for nginx 1.17.7, intermediate config, OpenSSL 1.1.1k the ALB listener policy that is the closest looks like ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS13-1-2-Ext1-2021-06

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/network/create-tls-listener.html#tls-protocols-ciphers for cipher coverage in the table.

Modern

The awsalb 2019.8.1, modern config states that "unfortunately, AWS ALB does not support the modern configuration"

Looking at the available listener policies, the only one that AWS provides that restricts to TLS1.3 only is "ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS13-1-3-2021-06"

[janbrasna]

There's an open PR #198 to address the issue.

@markstuart There's only a slight difference in the intermediate policy chosen,

ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS13-1-2-Ext1-2021-06 that you recommend
vs.
ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS13-1-2-2021-06 in the PR

Can you elaborate on the difference or maybe review the PR to discuss the ideal setup with the author?

[janbrasna]

Based on the overview table:

the -Ext1- includes weak suites as TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 or TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 so that shouldn't be used. 🚫

In reality it should be the more restricted -Res- policy, to get rid of all the CBC suites… ✅ → #198 (review)

[amznmunchy]

Hi team, TLS13-1-3-2021-06 (TLS v1.3 only) is now supported by ALBs.

[janbrasna]

@amznmunchy The support for modern (TLSv1.3 only) is being added in #198. We're also looking into updates for ELB, would you mind checking #84 (comment) if you have access to the cli to get the supported ciphers? Thanks.

[amznmunchy]

@janbrasna Thank you for the update! Classic Load Balancers support the following cipher suites:

[gstrauss]

Fixed by #198

[janbrasna]

@amznmunchy Thanks for the overview. We nonetheless use a custom policy, so we're picking from a different set of available ciphers, for ELB they're FYI defined here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-ssl-security-policy.html#ssl-ciphers
(as the predefined policies for ELBs are nowhere near the ones we use for ALBs, so we have to build custom ones for Classic…)