VPC Default Security Group Has Rules

What this rule checks

Detects standalone security group rules attached to a VPC default security group (GroupId referencing Fn::GetAtt DefaultSecurityGroup). CIS requires the default group to have no rules.

How to fix it

1. 1Attach rules to a purpose-built security group instead of the VPC default group
2. 2In CDK, enable restrictDefaultSecurityGroup: true on the Vpc so the default group has no rules

import { App, Stack } from 'aws-cdk-lib';
import { Construct } from 'constructs';
import * as ec2 from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-ec2';

// FLAGGED: rules added to the VPC's default security group.
new ec2.CfnSecurityGroup(this, 'DefaultSg', {
  groupName: 'default',
  groupDescription: 'default VPC security group',
  securityGroupIngress: [
    { ipProtocol: 'tcp', fromPort: 443, toPort: 443, cidrIp: '0.0.0.0/0' },
  ],
});

import { App, Stack } from 'aws-cdk-lib';
import { Construct } from 'constructs';
import * as ec2 from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-ec2';

// FIXED: default group left empty; a purpose-built SG carries the rules.
new ec2.CfnSecurityGroup(this, 'DefaultSg', {
  groupName: 'default',
  groupDescription: 'default VPC security group',
});
new ec2.CfnSecurityGroup(this, 'WebSg', {
  groupDescription: 'web tier',
  securityGroupIngress: [
    { ipProtocol: 'tcp', fromPort: 443, toPort: 443, cidrIp: '0.0.0.0/0' },
  ],
});

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Affected resource types

Intentional? Suppress this finding

Sometimes a flag is deliberate — a genuinely public endpoint, say. You can dismiss vpc-default-security-group-rules-present and the reason is kept in the report, not silently hidden.

In .cdk-insights.json:

{
  "ignoreRules": [
    { "id": "vpc-default-security-group-rules-present", "reason": "Why this is intentional" }
  ]
}

Or inline in your CDK code:

Validations.of(scope).acknowledge({
  id: 'cdk-insights::vpc-default-security-group-rules-present',
  reason: 'Why this is intentional',
});

Use the rule ID vpc-default-security-group-rules-present shown above — not the CDK-* ID from SARIF / GitHub code scanning. To dismiss every finding on one construct instead, use ignorePaths. Suppression docs →

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