CloudFront Logging Disabled

Query id: d31cb911-bf5b-4eb6-9fc3-16780c77c7bd
Query name: CloudFront Logging Disabled
Platform: Ansible
Severity: Medium
Category: Observability
URL: Github

Description¶

AWS CloudFront distributions should have logging enabled to collect all viewer requests, which means the attribute 'logging' should be defined with 'enabled' set to true
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

- name: create a distribution with an origin, logging and default cache behavior
  community.aws.cloudfront_distribution:
    state: present
    caller_reference: unique test distribution ID
    origins:
      - id: 'my test origin-000111'
        domain_name: www.example.com
        origin_path: /production
        custom_headers:
          - header_name: MyCustomHeaderName
            header_value: MyCustomHeaderValue
    default_cache_behavior:
      target_origin_id: 'my test origin-000111'
      forwarded_values:
        query_string: true
        cookies:
          forward: all
        headers:
          - '*'
      viewer_protocol_policy: allow-all
      smooth_streaming: true
      compress: true
      allowed_methods:
        items:
          - GET
          - HEAD
        cached_methods:
          - GET
          - HEAD
    enabled: false
    comment: this is a CloudFront distribution with logging
- name: create a second distribution with an origin, logging and default cache behavior
  community.aws.cloudfront_distribution:
    state: present
    caller_reference: unique test distribution ID
    origins:
      - id: 'my test origin-000111'
        domain_name: www.example.com
        origin_path: /production
        custom_headers:
          - header_name: MyCustomHeaderName
            header_value: MyCustomHeaderValue
    default_cache_behavior:
      target_origin_id: 'my test origin-000111'
      forwarded_values:
        query_string: true
        cookies:
          forward: all
        headers:
          - '*'
      viewer_protocol_policy: allow-all
      smooth_streaming: true
      compress: true
      allowed_methods:
        items:
          - GET
          - HEAD
        cached_methods:
          - GET
          - HEAD
    logging:
      enabled: false
      include_cookies: false
      bucket: mylogbucket.s3.amazonaws.com
      prefix: myprefix/
    enabled: false
    comment: this is a CloudFront distribution with logging

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

- name: create a distribution with an origin, logging and default cache behavior
  community.aws.cloudfront_distribution:
    state: present
    caller_reference: unique test distribution ID
    origins:
    - id: my test origin-000111
      domain_name: www.example.com
      origin_path: /production
      custom_headers:
      - header_name: MyCustomHeaderName
        header_value: MyCustomHeaderValue
    default_cache_behavior:
      target_origin_id: my test origin-000111
      forwarded_values:
        query_string: true
        cookies:
          forward: all
        headers:
        - '*'
      viewer_protocol_policy: allow-all
      smooth_streaming: true
      compress: true
      allowed_methods:
        items:
        - GET
        - HEAD
        cached_methods:
        - GET
        - HEAD
    logging:
      enabled: true
      include_cookies: false
      bucket: mylogbucket.s3.amazonaws.com
      prefix: myprefix/
    enabled: false
    comment: this is a CloudFront distribution with logging