ElastiCache Event Notifications - Disabled

ID: cache-event-notification-disabled

Severity: medium

Author: DhiyaneshDK

Tags: cloud,devops,aws,amazon,elasticache,aws-cloud-config

Description

Ensure that your Amazon ElastiCache clusters are configured to send event notifications via Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) in order to monitor your cache clusters for important events and quickly mitigate any issues with your cache system.

YAML Source

id: cache-event-notification-disabled

info:
  name: ElastiCache Event Notifications - Disabled
  author: DhiyaneshDK
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Ensure that your Amazon ElastiCache clusters are configured to send event notifications via Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) in order to monitor your cache clusters for important events and quickly mitigate any issues with your cache system.
  impact: |
    Disabling ElastiCache event notifications prevents timely alerts about cluster events, such as failovers, maintenance updates, or configuration changes, which can hinder proactive incident response and monitoring.
  remediation: |
    To remediate the disabled ElastiCache event notifications, enable event notifications in the AWS Management Console by configuring an Amazon SNS topic to receive alerts for important cluster events.
  reference:
    - https://www.trendmicro.com/cloudoneconformity-staging/knowledge-base/aws/ElastiCache/enable-cluster-event-notifications.html
    - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/red-ug/ECEvents.SNS.html
  tags: cloud,devops,aws,amazon,elasticache,aws-cloud-config

variables:
  region: "us-west-2"

flow: |
  code(1)
  for(let CacheClusterId of iterate(template.cacheclusterids)){
    set("cacheclusterid", CacheClusterId)
    code(2)
  }

self-contained: true

code:
  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      aws elasticache describe-cache-clusters --region $region --output json --query 'CacheClusters[*].CacheClusterId'

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: cacheclusterids
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[]'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash

    source: |
        aws elasticache describe-cache-clusters --region $region --cache-cluster-id $cacheclusterid --query 'CacheClusters[*].NotificationConfiguration.TopicArn' --output json

    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - '[]'

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'replicationgroup + " ElastiCache Event Notifications is Disabled"'
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Guide to check the vulnerabilities

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "cloud/aws/elasticache/cache-event-notification-disabled.yaml"

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