Network misconfigurations

Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) allows ingress access to PostgreSQL port 5432

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Description

PostgreSQL - 5432 is used by SQL server to listen for client requests. Allowing inbound traffic from all external IP addresses on PostgreSQL port is vulnerable to postgresql exploit. It is a best practice to block public access, and restrict access from specific IP addresses to port 5432.
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