CloudTrail Log File Validation Disabled

  • Query id: 52ffcfa6-6c70-4ea6-8376-d828d3961669
  • Query name: CloudTrail Log File Validation Disabled
  • Platform: Terraform
  • Severity: Low
  • Category: Observability
  • URL: Github

Description

CloudTrail log file validation should be enabled to determine whether a log file has not been tampered
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file
resource "aws_cloudtrail" "positive1" {
  name                          = "positive1"
  s3_bucket_name                = "bucketlog1"
}

resource "aws_cloudtrail" "positive2" {
  name                          = "positive2"
  s3_bucket_name                = "bucketlog2"
  enable_log_file_validation    = false
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file
resource "aws_cloudtrail" "negative1" {
  name                          = "negative1"
  s3_bucket_name                = "bucketlog1"
  enable_log_file_validation    = true
}