Ensure that S3 bucket ACLs don't allow 'WRITE' access for anonymous / AWS authenticated users

Risk Level: Critical
Cloud Entity: Simple Storage Service (S3)
CloudGuard Rule ID: D9.AWS.IAM.31
Covered by Spectral: Yes
Category: Storage

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S3Bucket should not have acl.grants contain [ (uri = 'http://acs.amazonaws.com/groups/global/AuthenticatedUsers' or uri = 'http://acs.amazonaws.com/groups/global/AllUsers') and premission = 'WRITE']

REMEDIATION

From Portal

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon S3 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/.
2. In the Buckets list, choose the name of the bucket that you want to create a bucket policy for or whose bucket policy you want to edit.
3. Choose Permissions.
4. Under ACL, choose Edit and modify the ACL configuration for the S3 bucket.
5. On the Edit ACL page, Under Objects uncheck the relevant permission box.
   Check the box which say "I understand the effects of these changes on my objects and buckets".
6. Choose Save changes, which returns you to the Bucket Permissions page.

From TF
Remove the relevant ACL policy block:

resource "aws_s3_bucket_acl" "example_s3_bucket_acl" {
	..
	access_control_policy {
		grant {
			grantee {
				uri  = ACL-URI
				type = "Group"
			}
			permission = "WRITE"
			..
		}

From Command Line
To deny the ACLs permissions for everyone, run:

aws s3api put-bucket-acl --bucket BUCKET-NAME --acl private

References

1. https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/s3-public-access-acl/
2. https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/2.0.34/reference/s3api/put-bucket-acl.html
3. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/s3_bucket_acl

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Compliance Frameworks

• AWS CCPA Framework
• AWS CSA CCM v.4.0.1
• AWS CloudGuard Best Practices
• AWS CloudGuard S3 Bucket Security
• AWS CloudGuard SOC2 based on AICPA TSC 2017
• AWS CloudGuard Well Architected Framework
• AWS HIPAA
• AWS HITRUST
• AWS HITRUST v11.0.0
• AWS ISO 27001:2013
• AWS ISO27001:2022
• AWS ITSG-33
• AWS LGPD regulation
• AWS MAS TRM Framework
• AWS MITRE ATT&CK Framework v10
• AWS MITRE ATT&CK Framework v11.3
• AWS NIST 800-171
• AWS NIST 800-53 Rev 4
• AWS NIST 800-53 Rev 5
• AWS NIST CSF v1.1
• AWS PCI-DSS 3.2
• AWS PCI-DSS 4.0
• AWS Security Risk Management
• CloudGuard AWS All Rules Ruleset
• CloudGuard AWS Default Ruleset