describe-audit-finding¶

Description¶

Gets information about a single audit finding. Properties include the reason for noncompliance, the severity of the issue, and the start time when the audit that returned the finding.

Requires permission to access the DescribeAuditFinding action.

Synopsis¶

  describe-audit-finding
--finding-id <value>
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--finding-id (string)

A unique identifier for a single audit finding. You can use this identifier to apply mitigation actions to the finding.

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To list details for an audit finding

The following describe-audit-finding example lists the details for the specified AWS IoT Device Defender audit finding. An audit can produce multiple findings. Use the list-audit-findings command to get a list of the findings from an audit to get the findingId.

aws iot describe-audit-finding \
    --finding-id "ef4826b8-e55a-44b9-b460-5c485355371b"

Output:

{
    "finding": {
        "findingId": "ef4826b8-e55a-44b9-b460-5c485355371b",
        "taskId": "873ed69c74a9ec8fa9b8e88e9abc4661",
        "checkName": "IOT_POLICY_OVERLY_PERMISSIVE_CHECK",
        "taskStartTime": 1576012045.745,
        "findingTime": 1576012046.168,
        "severity": "CRITICAL",
        "nonCompliantResource": {
            "resourceType": "IOT_POLICY",
            "resourceIdentifier": {
                "policyVersionIdentifier": {
                    "policyName": "smp-ggrass-group_Core-policy",
                    "policyVersionId": "1"
                }
            }
         },
        "reasonForNonCompliance": "Policy allows broad access to IoT data plane actions: [iot:Subscribe, iot:Connect, iot:GetThingShadow, iot:DeleteThingShadow, iot:UpdateThingShadow, iot:Publish].",
        "reasonForNonComplianceCode": "ALLOWS_BROAD_ACCESS_TO_IOT_DATA_PLANE_ACTIONS"
    }
}

For more information, see Check Audit Results (Audit Commands) in the AWS IoT Developer Guide.

Output¶

finding -> (structure)

The findings (results) of the audit.

findingId -> (string)

A unique identifier for this set of audit findings. This identifier is used to apply mitigation tasks to one or more sets of findings.

taskId -> (string)

The ID of the audit that generated this result (finding).

checkName -> (string)

The audit check that generated this result.

taskStartTime -> (timestamp)

The time the audit started.

findingTime -> (timestamp)

The time the result (finding) was discovered.

severity -> (string)

The severity of the result (finding).

nonCompliantResource -> (structure)

The resource that was found to be noncompliant with the audit check.

resourceType -> (string)

The type of the noncompliant resource.

resourceIdentifier -> (structure)

Information that identifies the noncompliant resource.

deviceCertificateId -> (string)

The ID of the certificate attached to the resource.

caCertificateId -> (string)

The ID of the CA certificate used to authorize the certificate.

cognitoIdentityPoolId -> (string)

The ID of the Amazon Cognito identity pool.

clientId -> (string)

The client ID.

policyVersionIdentifier -> (structure)

The version of the policy associated with the resource.

policyName -> (string)

The name of the policy.

policyVersionId -> (string)

The ID of the version of the policy associated with the resource.

account -> (string)

The account with which the resource is associated.

iamRoleArn -> (string)

The ARN of the IAM role that has overly permissive actions.

roleAliasArn -> (string)

The ARN of the role alias that has overly permissive actions.

additionalInfo -> (map)

Other information about the noncompliant resource.

key -> (string)

value -> (string)

relatedResources -> (list)

The list of related resources.

(structure)

Information about a related resource.

resourceType -> (string)

The type of resource.

resourceIdentifier -> (structure)

Information that identifies the resource.

deviceCertificateId -> (string)

The ID of the certificate attached to the resource.

caCertificateId -> (string)

The ID of the CA certificate used to authorize the certificate.

cognitoIdentityPoolId -> (string)

The ID of the Amazon Cognito identity pool.

clientId -> (string)

The client ID.

policyVersionIdentifier -> (structure)

The version of the policy associated with the resource.

policyName -> (string)

The name of the policy.

policyVersionId -> (string)

The ID of the version of the policy associated with the resource.

account -> (string)

The account with which the resource is associated.

iamRoleArn -> (string)

The ARN of the IAM role that has overly permissive actions.

roleAliasArn -> (string)

The ARN of the role alias that has overly permissive actions.

additionalInfo -> (map)

Other information about the resource.

key -> (string)

value -> (string)

reasonForNonCompliance -> (string)

The reason the resource was noncompliant.

reasonForNonComplianceCode -> (string)

A code that indicates the reason that the resource was noncompliant.

isSuppressed -> (boolean)

Indicates whether the audit finding was suppressed or not during reporting.

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