Network misconfigurations

Amazon MQ broker is publicly accessible

Platform(s)
Compliance Frameworks
  • Brazilian General Data Protection (LGPD)
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  • CCPA
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  • cis_8
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  • CPRA
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  • GDPR
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  • HITRUST
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  • ISO 27701
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  • iso_27001_2022
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  • iso_27002_2022
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  • Mitre ATT&CK
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  • mpa
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  • New Zealand Information Security Manual
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  • NIST 800-171
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  • NIST 800-53
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  • Orca Best Practices
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  • PDPA
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  • UK Cyber Essentials

Description

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that allows setting up and operating message brokers. It was detected that MQ broker {AwsMqBroker} is publicly accessible, which means every machine on the Internet can reach it through their public endpoints. It will increase the risk of malicious activity such as cross-site scripting(XSS), clickjacking and DDoS attacks.