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CloudTrail log file validation disabled

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Id: ansible-aws-cloudtrail-log-file-validation-disabled

Provider: AWS

Platform: Ansible

Severity: Low

Category: Observability

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Description

CloudTrail log file validation must be enabled to detect tampering of delivered log files and preserve the integrity of audit data used for incident response and compliance.

For Ansible tasks using the amazon.aws.cloudtrail or cloudtrail module, one of the properties enable_log_file_validation or log_file_validation_enabled must be defined and set to true (or yes). Resources missing both properties or with these properties set to false, no, or any non-true value are flagged as insecure.

Secure Ansible example:

- name: Create CloudTrail with log file validation enabled
  amazon.aws.cloudtrail:
    name: my-trail
    s3_bucket_name: my-trail-bucket
    enable_log_file_validation: true

Compliant Code Examples

- name: create multi-region trail with validation and tags v2
  amazon.aws.cloudtrail:
    state: present
    name: default
    s3_bucket_name: mylogbucket
    region: us-east-1
    is_multi_region_trail: true
    enable_log_file_validation: true
    cloudwatch_logs_role_arn: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/CloudTrail_CloudWatchLogs_Role
    cloudwatch_logs_log_group_arn: arn:aws:logs:us-east-1:123456789012:log-group:CloudTrail/DefaultLogGroup:*
    kms_key_id: alias/MyAliasName
    tags:
      environment: dev
      Name: default
- name: create multi-region trail with validation and tags v3
  amazon.aws.cloudtrail:
    state: present
    name: default
    s3_bucket_name: mylogbucket
    region: us-east-1
    is_multi_region_trail: true
    log_file_validation_enabled: true
    cloudwatch_logs_role_arn: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/CloudTrail_CloudWatchLogs_Role
    cloudwatch_logs_log_group_arn: arn:aws:logs:us-east-1:123456789012:log-group:CloudTrail/DefaultLogGroup:*
    kms_key_id: alias/MyAliasName
    tags:
      environment: dev
      Name: default

Non-Compliant Code Examples

- name: create multi-region trail with validation and tags
  amazon.aws.cloudtrail:
    state: present
    name: default
    s3_bucket_name: mylogbucket
    region: us-east-1
    is_multi_region_trail: true
    cloudwatch_logs_role_arn: "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/CloudTrail_CloudWatchLogs_Role"
    cloudwatch_logs_log_group_arn: "arn:aws:logs:us-east-1:123456789012:log-group:CloudTrail/DefaultLogGroup:*"
    kms_key_id: "alias/MyAliasName"
    tags:
      environment: dev
      Name: default
- name: create multi-region trail with validation and tags v7
  amazon.aws.cloudtrail:
    state: present
    name: default
    s3_bucket_name: mylogbucket
    region: us-east-1
    is_multi_region_trail: true
    enable_log_file_validation: false
    cloudwatch_logs_role_arn: "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/CloudTrail_CloudWatchLogs_Role"
    cloudwatch_logs_log_group_arn: "arn:aws:logs:us-east-1:123456789012:log-group:CloudTrail/DefaultLogGroup:*"
    kms_key_id: "alias/MyAliasName"
    tags:
      environment: dev
      Name: default