id: acm-wildcard-cert info: name: Wildcard ACM Certificate Usage author: princechaddha severity: low description: | Ensure ACM certificates for specific domain names are used over wildcard certificates to adhere to best security practices, providing unique private keys for each domain/subdomain. impact: | Using wildcard certificates can expose your AWS environment to increased risk by potentially allowing unauthorized subdomains to be protected under the same certificate, reducing the granularity of access control and increasing the blast radius in the event of a key compromise. remediation: | Replace wildcard ACM certificates with single domain name certificates for each domain/subdomain within your AWS account. This enhances security by ensuring each domain/subdomain has its own unique private key and certificate. reference: - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-certificate.html tags: cloud,devops,aws,amazon,acm,aws-cloud-config variables: region: "us-east-1" flow: | code(1) for(let arns of iterate(template.certificatearns)){ set("certificatearn", arns) code(2) } self-contained: true code: - engine: - sh - bash source: | aws acm list-certificates --region $region --certificate-statuses ISSUED --query 'CertificateSummaryList[*].CertificateArn' --output json extractors: - type: json name: certificatearns internal: true json: - '.[]' - engine: - sh - bash source: | aws acm describe-certificate --region $region --certificate-arn $certificatearn --query 'Certificate.DomainName' matchers: - type: word words: - "*." extractors: - type: dsl dsl: - 'certificatearn + " AWS ACM certificate is a wildcard certificate"' # digest: 4a0a00473045022100f6ea9830b40920522f8151d891ae384572efefa30076cbf061bb313303abe50d022030dcf2a11227f66c51c43294228e264bf6b0eee1ae359cc2b84272c834de6351:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950