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GCP Storage Bucket Permissions Modification

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GCP Storage Bucket Permissions Modification

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Identifies when the Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions are modified for a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) storage bucket. An adversary may modify the permissions on a storage bucket to weaken their target’s security controls or an administrator may inadvertently modify the permissions, which could lead to data exposure or loss.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-gcp*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/iam-permissions

Tags:

Elastic
Cloud
GCP
Continuous Monitoring
SecOps
Identity and Access

Version: 7 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positives

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Storage bucket permissions may be modified by system administrators. Verify that the configuration change was expected. Exceptions can be added to this rule to filter expected behavior.

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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event.dataset:gcp.audit and event.action:"storage.setIamPermissions"
and event.outcome:success

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Defense Evasion
- ID: TA0005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/
Technique:
- Name: File and Directory Permissions Modification
- ID: T1222
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1222/

Rule version history

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Version 7 (8.4.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

event.dataset:(googlecloud.audit or gcp.audit) and
event.action:"storage.setIamPermissions" and event.outcome:success

Version 5 (7.13.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

event.dataset:(googlecloud.audit or gcp.audit) and
event.action:storage.setIamPermissions and event.outcome:success

Version 4 (7.12.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 3 (7.11.2 release)

Formatting only

Version 2 (7.11.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

event.dataset:googlecloud.audit and
event.action:storage.setIamPermissions and event.outcome:success

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