id: stack-notification-disabled info: name: CloudFormation Stack Notification - Disabled author: DhiyaneshDK severity: medium description: | Ensure that your Amazon CloudFormation stacks are using SNS topics to send notifications when important events occur. impact: | Disabling CloudFormation Stack Notifications can lead to reduced visibility into stack events and errors, delaying the detection of issues and hindering effective monitoring of changes and deployments in the cloud environment. remediation: | Enable CloudFormation Stack Notifications by configuring SNS (Simple Notification Service) topics for your CloudFormation stack. This will ensure real-time alerts on stack events, including updates, errors, and resource creation, providing better monitoring and visibility. reference: - https://www.trendmicro.com/cloudoneconformity-staging/knowledge-base/aws/CloudFormation/cloudformation-stack-notification.html - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-stack.html tags: cloud,devops,aws,amazon,cloudformation,aws-cloud-config variables: region: "us-west-2" flow: | code(1) for(let StackSummaries of iterate(template.stacksummaries)){ set("stacksummary", StackSummaries) code(2) } self-contained: true code: - engine: - sh - bash source: | aws cloudformation list-stacks --region $region --stack-status-filter CREATE_COMPLETE --output json --query 'StackSummaries[*].StackName' extractors: - type: json name: stacksummaries internal: true json: - '.[]' - engine: - sh - bash source: | aws cloudformation describe-stacks --region $region --stack-name $stacksummary --query 'Stacks[*].NotificationARNs[]' matchers: - type: word words: - '[]' extractors: - type: dsl dsl: - '"CloudFormation Stack Notification " + stacksummary + " is Disabled"' # digest: 4a0a00473045022100bc25a76faa0c7e58a4a92eb2f19a3274305669771d48c016d498e89c11662c5e02203a98e65faea988f9df8e4a27ba1c90ebfe9fb35920fbdaaaa0d8e8231552a475:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950