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Cloudtrail log validation should be enabled to prevent tampering of log data

Default Severity: high

Explanation

Log validation should be activated on Cloudtrail logs to prevent the tampering of the underlying data in the S3 bucket. It is feasible that a rogue actor compromising an AWS account might want to modify the log data to remove trace of their actions.

Possible Impact

Illicit activity could be removed from the logs

Suggested Resolution

Turn on log validation for Cloudtrail

Insecure Example

The following example will fail the aws-cloudtrail-enable-log-validation check. 

 resource "aws_cloudtrail" "bad_example" {
   is_multi_region_trail = true

   event_selector {
     read_write_type           = "All"
     include_management_events = true

     data_resource {
       type = "AWS::S3::Object"
       values = ["${data.aws_s3_bucket.important-bucket.arn}/"]
     }
   }
 }

Secure Example

The following example will pass the aws-cloudtrail-enable-log-validation check. 

 resource "aws_cloudtrail" "good_example" {
   is_multi_region_trail = true
   enable_log_file_validation = true

   event_selector {
     read_write_type           = "All"
     include_management_events = true

     data_resource {
       type = "AWS::S3::Object"
       values = ["${data.aws_s3_bucket.important-bucket.arn}/"]
     }
   }
 }