AWSCloudTrail - Changes to internet facing AWS RDS Database instances
Identifies AWS CloudTrail events associated with changes to Amazon RDS database security groups and database security group ingress rules, which may indicate unauthorized modification of internet-facing RDS access.…
Description
Identifies AWS CloudTrail events associated with changes to Amazon RDS database security groups and database security group ingress rules, which may indicate unauthorized modification of internet-facing RDS access. Validate whether the change was authorized and consistent with change control policy. RDS API Reference Docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- IaaSIdentity ProviderSaaS
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
- Log source service
- awscloudtrail
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 8c2ef238-67a0-497d-b1dd-5c8a0f533e25
- Tagged by the source as
- DefenseEvasionPersistencePrivilegeEscalation
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 29, 2026
- Version
- 1