Lack of protection against deletion - ELB
Description
The current configuration of Elastic Load Balancing has no Deletion Protection safety feature enabled.
Impact
- AWS load balancers can be accidentally deleted.
- Load-balanced environments remain unsafe.
- Intentional or accidental deletion of data integrity.
Recommendation
Check the Deletion Protection configuration attribute value inside attributes section and enable it.
Threat
Attacker with access to the AWS console that modifies or deletes information.
Expected Remediation Time
⌚ minutes.
Score
Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.
Base
- Attack vector: N
- Attack complexity: L
- Privileges required: H
- User interaction: N
- Scope: U
- Confidentiality: N
- Integrity: N
- Availability: H
Temporal
- Exploit code madurity: P
- Remediation level: O
- Report confidence: C
Result
- Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
- Score:
- Base: 4.9
- Temporal: 4.4
- Severity:
- Base: Medium
- Temporal: Medium
Requirements
Fixes
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