Stack Notifications Disabled

Query id: 837e033c-4717-40bd-807e-6abaa30161b7
Query name: Stack Notifications Disabled
Platform: CloudFormation
Severity: Medium
Category: Observability
URL: Github

Description¶

AWS CloudFormation should have stack notifications enabled to be notified when an event occurs
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Resources:
  myStackWithParams:
    Type: AWS::CloudFormation::Stack
    Properties:
      TemplateURL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-east-2/EC2ChooseAMI.template
      Parameters:
        InstanceType: t1.micro
        KeyName: mykey

Positive test num. 2 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Resources": {
    "myStackWithParams": {
      "Type": "AWS::CloudFormation::Stack",
      "Properties": {
        "TemplateURL": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-east-2/EC2ChooseAMI.template",
        "Parameters": {
          "InstanceType": "t1.micro",
          "KeyName": "mykey"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

Negative test num. 2 - json file

n>

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09' >Resources: myStackWithParams: Type: AWS::CloudFormation::Stack Properties: NotificationARNs: - "String" TemplateURL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-east-2/EC2ChooseAMI.template Parameters: InstanceType: t1.micro KeyName: mykey n>{ "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09", "Resources": { "myStackWithParams": { "Type": "AWS::CloudFormation::Stack", "Properties": { "NotificationARNs": [ "string" ], "TemplateURL": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-east-2/EC2ChooseAMI.template", "Parameters": { "InstanceType": "t1.micro", "KeyName": "mykey" } } } } class="p">}