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Id: 5d9e3164-9265-470c-9a10-57ae454ac0c7

Cloud Provider: AWS

Platform: Terraform

Severity: Low

Category: Encryption

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Description

CloudTrail logs contain sensitive information about account activity and should be protected from unauthorized access. If the kms_key_id attribute is not specified in the aws_cloudtrail resource block, as shown below, then the logs stored in S3 are not encrypted with a customer-managed KMS key, leaving them vulnerable to exposure or tampering:

resource "aws_cloudtrail" "positive1" {
  name           = "npositive_1"
  s3_bucket_name = "bucketlog_1"
}

Using the kms_key_id attribute, as in the example below, ensures that the logs are protected with strong encryption, reducing the risk of unauthorized access and helping meet compliance requirements:

resource "aws_cloudtrail" "negative1" {
  name           = "negative1"
  s3_bucket_name = "bucketlog1"
  kms_key_id     = "arn:aws:kms:us-east-2:123456789012:key/12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012"
}

Compliant Code Examples

resource "aws_cloudtrail" "negative1" {
  name                          = "negative1"
  s3_bucket_name                = "bucketlog1"
  kms_key_id                    = "arn:aws:kms:us-east-2:123456789012:key/12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012"
}

Non-Compliant Code Examples

resource "aws_cloudtrail" "positive1" {
  name                          = "npositive_1"
  s3_bucket_name                = "bucketlog_1"
}