Network misconfigurations

Classic Load Balancer (ELB) with public access

Platform(s)
Compliance Frameworks
  • Brazilian General Data Protection (LGPD)
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  • CCM-CSA
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  • CCPA
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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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  • 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

Classic Load Balancer (ELB) provides basic load balancing across multiple Amazon EC2 instances and operates at both the request level and connection level. The load balancer {AwsEc2Elb} was discovered to be associated with a security group {AwsEc2Elb.SecurityGroups} that allows public ingress access without IP filtering (0.0.0.0/0). Load balancer configured with public access opens the application hosted behind the load balancer to attacks from malicious entities on the Internet.