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Enable Public Access on EBS Snapshot

Platform Author Last Update
aws Anela Tiro 2023-07-01

An adversary may attempt to enable public access on EBS snapshot

MITRE IDs

Required Permissions

  • ec2:createVolumePermission

Required Parameters

Name Type Description Example Value
snapshotid str ID of the snapshot that you want to make public snapshot_ID

Attacker Action

aws ec2 modify-snapshot-attribute --snapshot-id snapshot_ID --attribute createVolumePermission --operation-type add --group-names all

Detection Case

ELK query

When logs are ingested into ELK, the following Lucene query can be used to identify relevant events.

eventName:ModifySnapshotAttribute AND eventSource:*.ec2.amazonaws.com  

Sigma Definition

---
title: Enable Public Access on EBS Snapshot
id: testing
status: experimental
author: Anela Tiro
date: 2023-07-01
description: An adversary may attempt to enable public access on EBS snapshot
logsource:
  service: cloudtrail
detection:
  selection_source:
    - eventSource: "*.ec2.amazonaws.com"
  events:
    - eventName: "ModifySnapshotAttribute"
  condition: selection_source AND events
level: low
tags:
  - attack.T1567