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# AWS S3 bucket Object not encrypted using Customer Managed Key misconfiguration detected in code

## AWS S3 bucket Object not encrypted using Customer Managed Key misconfiguration detected in code

### Rule Details

|                        |                           |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------- |
| Cortex AppSec Rule ID  | APPSEC\_AWS\_186          |
| Category - Subcategory | Storage - Encryption      |
| Provider               | AWS                       |
| Severity               | LOW                       |
| Framework              | Terraform, Terraform Plan |

### Impact

This is a simple check to ensure that the S3 bucket Object is using AWS key management - KMS to encrypt its contents. To resolve add the ARN of your KMS or link on creation of the object.

### How to Fix

*Resource:* aws\_s3\_bucket\_object

* *Attribute:* kms\_key\_id - (Optional) Specifies the AWS KMS Key ARN to use for object encryption. This value is a fully qualified ARN of the KMS Key. \[source,go]

***

resource "aws\_s3\_bucket\_object" "object" { bucket = "your\_bucket\_name" key = "new\_object\_key" source = "path/to/file"

* kms\_key\_id = "ckv\_kms"

## The filemd5() function is available in Terraform 0.11.12 and later

## For Terraform 0.11.11 and earlier, use the md5() function and the file() function:

## etag = "${md5(file("path/to/file"))}"

### etag = filemd5("path/to/file") }


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