GHSA-cj8g-prcm-mfg5
@hulumi/baseline: AccountFoundation reuse paths silently downgrade GuardDuty / Security Hub posture
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | @hulumi/baseline | < 1.4.0 | 1.4.0 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
**Affected:** `@hulumi/baseline` `< 1.4.0` — **Fixed in:** `1.4.0` — **Severity:** Medium — **CWE-693 (Protection Mechanism Failure)**
#### Summary
`AccountFoundation` can either create AWS detective services (GuardDuty for threat detection, Security Hub for compliance dashboards) or reuse pre-existing ones via opt-in flags. The reuse paths just imported the existing resources and reported success — they never checked whether the existing services were actually doing their job.
1. **GuardDuty reuse.** If the existing detector was suspended, or set to the slower 6-hour publishing cadence instead of the baseline 15-minute one, or otherwise misconfigured — Hulumi never noticed. The deployment succeeded with a misleadingly-positive `guardDutyDetectorId` output as if the baseline were active.
2. **Security Hub reuse.** Although the account import was read-only, Hulumi unconditionally created the CIS / NIST `StandardsSubscription` resources with default delete behaviour. Pulumi then treated those subscriptions as its own — a later `pulumi destroy` of the stack would call `BatchDisableStandards`, unsubscribing the account from CIS / NIST compliance monitoring even on accounts that had those subscriptions before Hulumi ever ran.
#### Impact
Consumers using `AccountFoundation`'s reuse mode could:
- ship deployments that appeared to enable a detective baseline but actually weren't (case 1), or
- accidentally turn off CIS / NIST compliance monitoring on an existing account just by destroying a Hulumi stack (case 2 — no malicious intent needed; a normal stack teardown was enough).
#### Patches
Upgrade to `@hulumi/[email protected]`.
- GuardDuty reuse now asserts the imported detector is `ENABLED` with `findingPublishingFrequency: FIFTEEN_MINUTES`. Wrong posture fails the deploy at preview time.
- Security Hub reuse creates the CIS / NIST `StandardsSubscription` resources with `retainOnDelete: true`, so destroying a reused stack no longer unsubscribes the account.
Net-new (non-reuse) deployments are unchanged.
#### Workarounds
Don't reuse pre-existing detective services with `AccountFoundation` before upgrading. If reuse is unavoidable, manually verify detector posture out-of-band.
#### Resources
- [PR #178](https://github.com/kerberosmansour/hulumi/pull/178) (Cluster G); regression tests in
`packages/baseline/tests/guardduty-reuse-posture.test.ts` and
`packages/baseline/tests/securityhub-reuse-retain.test.ts`.
References
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