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# AWS CloudFront distribution with access logging disabled misconfiguration detected in code

## Rule Details

|                        |                                                       |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| Cortex AppSec Rule ID  | APPSEC\_AWS\_86                                       |
| Category - Subcategory | Logging - Disabled or missing                         |
| Provider               | AWS                                                   |
| Severity               | LOW                                                   |
| Framework              | CloudFormation, Serverless, Terraform, Terraform Plan |
| Mapped CSPM/KSPM Rule  | 81e103d7-6ba6-42d6-ace7-dfdcff88693a                  |

## Impact

Cloudfront access logs contain detailed information (requested object name, date and time of the access, client IP, access point, error code, etc) about each request made for your web content. This information can be extremely useful during security audits, or as input data for various analytics/reporting tools. Pairing with Lambda and WAF logs could help expedite a response process and possibly enable blocking requests coming from IP addresses that generate multiple errors. These spikes in errors could possibly indicate they were made by attackers trying to find vulnerabilities within your web application.

## How to Fix

* *Resource:* AWS::CloudFront::Distribution
* *Arguments:* Properties.DistributionConfig.Logging/Bucket \[source,go]

***

Resources: MyCloudFrontDistribution: Type: 'AWS::CloudFront::Distribution' Properties: ... DistributionConfig: ...

* Logging:
* Bucket: myawslogbucket.s3.amazonaws.com

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