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# S3 buckets do not have event notifications enabled misconfiguration detected in code

## Rule Details

|                        |                               |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| Cortex AppSec Rule ID  | APPSEC2\_AWS\_62              |
| Category - Subcategory | Logging - Disabled or missing |
| Provider               | AWS                           |
| Severity               | LOW                           |
| Framework              | Terraform, Terraform Plan     |

## Impact

This rule detects if the S3 bucket event notifications are not enabled in AWS settings.

## How to Fix

*Resource:* aws\_s3\_bucket, aws\_s3\_bucket\_notification

* *Arguments:* queue, lambda\_function, topic

The issue can be fixed by enabling event notifications for the S3 bucket. You can do it by using the `aws_s3_bucket_notification` resource where you can specify the type of destination (Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, or AWS Lambda) where you want Amazon S3 to publish the event.

Secure code example:

## The above code is secure as it enables event notifications for the S3 bucket and specifies Amazon SNS as the destination where Amazon S3 will publish the event. \[source,go]

resource "aws\_s3\_bucket" "bucket" { bucket = "bucket" }

resource "aws\_sns\_topic" "bucket\_notifications" { name = "bucket-notifications" }

resource "aws\_s3\_bucket\_notification" "bucket\_notification" { bucket = aws\_s3\_bucket.bucket.id

## topic { topic\_arn = aws\_sns\_topic.bucket\_notifications.arn events = \["s3:ObjectCreated:\*"] filter\_prefix = "logs/" } }


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