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AWSCloudTrail - S3 object publicly exposed

Description

Detects S3 object ACL changes that expose objects to public or broadly authenticated users. This can result in unintended data disclosure from object-level permissions.

Rule type: Scheduled
Version: 1.0.2
Declared status: Available
Query frequency: 1h
Query period: 1h
Trigger: gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

Exfiltration T1537

Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

Connectors

AWS

Data types

AWSCloudTrail

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

AWSCloudTrail
  | where EventName == "PutObjectAcl" and isempty(ErrorCode) and isempty(ErrorMessage)
  | extend Grant = parse_json(tostring((parse_json(RequestParameters).AccessControlPolicy))).AccessControlList.Grant
  | mvexpand Grant
  | extend cannedacl = parse_json(tostring((parse_json(RequestParameters))))
  | extend URI = parse_json(Grant).Grantee.URI, type = parse_json(Grant).Grantee.["xsi:type"], xamzacl = parse_json(cannedacl).["x-amz-acl"]
  | where (type == "Group" and (URI endswith "AllUsers" or URI endswith "AuthenticatedUsers"))
    or xamzacl in ("authenticated-read","public-read","public-read-write")
  | extend UserIdentityArn = iif(isempty(UserIdentityArn), tostring(parse_json(Resources)[0].ARN), UserIdentityArn)
  | extend UserName = tostring(split(UserIdentityArn, '/')[-1])
  | extend AccountName = case( UserIdentityPrincipalid == "Anonymous", "Anonymous", isempty(UserIdentityUserName), UserName, UserIdentityUserName)
  | extend AccountName = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 0)[0]), AccountName),
    AccountUPNSuffix = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 1)[0]), "")

Declared entities

AccountIP

Source provenance

GitHub

Displayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.

File: Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Analytic Rules/AWS_S3ObjectPubliclyExposed.yaml ↗
Commit: 9800e51 ↗
Source identifier: 09f2a28b-3286-4268-9e2f-33805f104e5d

Additional source files 2

Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Analytic Rules/AWS_S3ObjectPubliclyExposed.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Data/Solution_AmazonWebServices.jsonsolution-membership ↗

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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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