S3 bucket without ignore public ACL

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Id: 6c8d51af-218d-4bfb-94a9-94eabaa0703a

Cloud Provider: AWS

Platform: CloudFormation

Severity: Medium

Category: Insecure Configurations

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Description

S3 buckets should ignore public ACLs to prevent object or bucket-level ACLs from granting unintended public access. Public ACLs can lead to accidental data exposure.

In CloudFormation, the AWS::S3::Bucket resource must include PublicAccessBlockConfiguration.IgnorePublicAcls and it must be set to true. Resources missing PublicAccessBlockConfiguration, missing the IgnorePublicAcls property, or with IgnorePublicAcls: false will be flagged.

Secure configuration example:

MyBucket:
  Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
  Properties:
    BucketName: my-bucket
    PublicAccessBlockConfiguration:
      IgnorePublicAcls: true

Compliant Code Examples

Resources:
  Bucket1:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
    Properties:
      PublicAccessBlockConfiguration:
        BlockPublicAcls       : true
        BlockPublicPolicy     : true
        IgnorePublicAcls      : true
        RestrictPublicBuckets : true

{
  "Resources": {
    "Bucket1": {
      "Type": "AWS::S3::Bucket",
      "Properties": {
        "PublicAccessBlockConfiguration": {
          "BlockPublicAcls": true,
          "BlockPublicPolicy": true,
          "IgnorePublicAcls": true,
          "RestrictPublicBuckets": true
        },
        "AccessControl": "Private"
      }
    }
  }
}

Non-Compliant Code Examples

{
  "Resources": {
    "Bucket1": {
      "Type": "AWS::S3::Bucket",
      "Properties": {
        "PublicAccessBlockConfiguration": {
          "BlockPublicAcls": false,
          "BlockPublicPolicy": true,
          "IgnorePublicAcls": false,
          "RestrictPublicBuckets": true
        },
        "AccessControl": "Private"
      }
    }
  }
}

Resources:
  Bucket11:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
    Properties:
---
Resources:
  Bucket12:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
    Properties:
      PublicAccessBlockConfiguration:
        BlockPublicPolicy     : true
        RestrictPublicBuckets : true
---
Resources:
  Bucket13:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
    Properties:
      PublicAccessBlockConfiguration:
        BlockPublicAcls: false
        BlockPublicPolicy     : true
        IgnorePublicAcls      : false
        RestrictPublicBuckets : true