High

@hulumi/baseline: AccountFoundation audit-delivery S3 bucket could be silently weakened

  • Disclosed: 10.06.2026
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Affected: @hulumi/baseline < 1.4.0 — Fixed in: 1.4.0 — Severity: High — CWE-1059 (Insufficient Technical Documentation / Behavioral Inconsistency)

Summary

The S3 bucket that AccountFoundation creates to receive CloudTrail and AWS Config audit logs is meant to be tamper-resistant — if someone with delete access can erase from it, the forensic trail is gone. There were three independent ways the protection could be silently weakened:

  1. No Write-Once-Read-Many on the startup-hardened audit bucket. The startup-hardened tier hard-coded objectLock: false on the audit bucket. (The reason was real — bucket-wide Object Lock blocks an AWS Config write-then-delete probe — but the fix was a sledgehammer that disabled WORM for all objects, not just the probe key.)
  2. forceDestroy was forwarded to the audit bucket. Nothing prevented a downstream stack from setting logBucketForceDestroy: true, which made pulumi destroy purge every audit-log object on teardown.
  3. Sandbox tier dropped everything. Sandbox-tier AccountFoundation created its audit bucket with tier: "sandbox", which skipped Object Lock, server access logging, AND the CloudTrail-Lake EventDataStore (the independent immutable mirror) — leaving sandbox accounts with no audit immutability at all.

Impact

Consumers using AccountFoundation could ship an AWS account whose CloudTrail / Config audit logs were deletable by any S3-delete-capable principal — while believing the startup-hardened tier guaranteed tamper-resistance. Sandbox-tier deployments had no audit immutability at all (defects 1 and 3 compounded).

Patches

Upgrade to @hulumi/baseline@1.4.0. A single invariant in SecureBucket now fires whenever the bucket actually backs CloudTrail/Config delivery (i.e. awsServiceLogDelivery.cloudTrail === true || .config === true):

  • refuses forceDestroy: true on the startup-hardened tier;
  • emits the CloudTrail-Lake EventDataStore regardless of parent tier (so sandbox accounts regain immutable audit capture);
  • adds a deny-s3:DeleteObject* bucket-policy statement scoped to the CloudTrail and Config history/snapshot prefixes (a retention floor on the audit objects). The deny excludes the AWS Config ConfigWritabilityCheckFile probe key so Config's write-then-delete still works, which is why bucket-wide Object Lock is intentionally NOT re-enabled.

Workarounds

Replicating audit logs out-of-account to an Object-Locked archive bucket partially mitigates while you upgrade.

Resources

  • PR #178 (Cluster C); see CHANGELOG ### Migration for the forceDestroy behaviour change.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package @hulumi/baseline < 1.4.0 1.4.0

References

CVSS score -
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1059
Platform
npm
Package
@hulumi/baseline
Disclosed
10.06.2026
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-2mxr-p26x-mj73 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: @hulumi/baseline

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
3
First → latest
05.2026 06.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 1
  • Medium 2

Disclosures per year

  1. 2026: 3
  1. @hulumi/baseline: AccountFoundation audit-delivery S3 bucket could be silently weakened this entry
    High CVE-2026-48035 < 1.4.0 1.4.0

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