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The load balancer forwarding rule is using an insecure protocol as an entrypoint

Default Severity: critical

Explanation

Plain HTTP is unencrypted and human-readable. This means that if a malicious actor was to eavesdrop on your connection, they would be able to see all of your data flowing back and forth.

You should use HTTPS, which is HTTP over an encrypted (TLS) connection, meaning eavesdroppers cannot read your traffic.

Possible Impact

Your inbound traffic is not protected

Suggested Resolution

Switch to HTTPS to benefit from TLS security features

Insecure Example

The following example will fail the digitalocean-compute-enforce-https check. 

 resource "digitalocean_loadbalancer" "bad_example" {
   name   = "bad_example-1"
   region = "nyc3"

   forwarding_rule {
     entry_port     = 80
     entry_protocol = "http"

     target_port     = 80
     target_protocol = "http"
   }

   droplet_ids = [digitalocean_droplet.web.id]
 }

Secure Example

The following example will pass the digitalocean-compute-enforce-https check. 

 resource "digitalocean_loadbalancer" "bad_example" {
   name   = "bad_example-1"
   region = "nyc3"

   forwarding_rule {
    entry_port     = 443
    entry_protocol = "https"

    target_port     = 443
    target_protocol = "https"
   }

   droplet_ids = [digitalocean_droplet.web.id]
 }