CloudWatch Logging Disabled

Query id: 0f0fb06b-0f2f-4374-8588-f2c7c348c7a0
Query name: CloudWatch Logging Disabled
Platform: CloudFormation
Severity: Medium
Category: Observability
URL: Github

Description¶

Check if CloudWatch logging is disabled for Route53 hosted zones
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Postitive test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
Description: "Router53"
Resources:
  HostedZone3:
    Type: AWS::Route53::HostedZone
    Properties:
      Name: "HostedZone"

Postitive test num. 2 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Description": "Router53",
  "Resources": {
    "HostedZone4": {
      "Type": "AWS::Route53::HostedZone",
      "Properties": {
        "Name": "HostedZone"
      }
    }
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
Description: "Router53"
Resources:
  HostedZone:
    Type: AWS::Route53::HostedZone
    Properties:
      Name: "HostedZone"
      QueryLoggingConfig:
        CloudWatchLogsLogGroupArn: "SomeCloudWatchLogGroupArn"

Negative test num. 2 - json file

{
  "Description": "Router53",
  "Resources": {
    "HostedZone2": {
      "Type": "AWS::Route53::HostedZone",
      "Properties": {
        "Name": "HostedZone",
        "QueryLoggingConfig": {
          "CloudWatchLogsLogGroupArn": "SomeCloudWatchLogGroupArn"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09"
}