GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-cj8g-prcm-mfg5 @hulumi/baseline: AccountFoundation reuse paths silently downgrade GuardDuty / Security Hub posture
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-48037
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- @hulumi/baseline
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-693
- Reviewed
- 2026-06-10
Affected packages
• npm @hulumi/baseline: < 1.4.0 → fixed in 1.4.0
Description
Affected: `@hulumi/baseline` `< 1.4.0` — Fixed in: `1.4.0` — Severity: Medium — CWE-693 (Protection Mechanism Failure)
Summary
`AccountFoundation` can either create AWS detective services (GuardDuty for threat detection, Security Hub for compliance dashboards) or reuse pre-existing ones via opt-in flags. The reuse paths just imported the existing resources and reported success — they never checked whether the existing services were actually doing their job.
1. GuardDuty reuse. If the existing detector was suspended, or set to the slower 6-hour publishing cadence instead of the baseline 15-minute one, or otherwise misconfigured — Hulumi never noticed. The deployment succeeded with a misleadingly-positive `guardDutyDetectorId` output as if the baseline were active.
2. Security Hub reuse. Although the account import was read-only, Hulumi unconditionally created the CIS / NIST `StandardsSubscription` resources with default delete behaviour. Pulumi then treated those subscriptions as its own — a later `pulumi destroy` of the stack would call `BatchDisableStandards`, unsubscribing the account from CIS / NIST compliance monitoring even on accounts that had those subscriptions before Hulumi ever ran.
Impact
Consumers using `AccountFoundation`'s reuse mode could:
• ship deployments that appeared to enable a detective baseline but actually weren't (case 1), or
• accidentally turn off CIS / NIST compliance monitoring on an existing account just by destroying a Hulumi stack (case 2 — no malicious intent needed; a normal stack teardown was enough).
Patches
Upgrade to `@hulumi/[email protected]`.
• GuardDuty reuse now asserts the imported detector is `ENABLED` with `findingPublishingFrequency: FIFTEEN_MINUTES`. Wrong posture fails the deploy at preview time.
• Security Hub reuse creates the CIS / NIST `StandardsSubscription` resources with `retainOnDelete: true`, so destroying a reused stack no longer unsubscribes the account.
Net-new (non-reuse) deployments are unchanged.
Workarounds
Don't reuse pre-existing detective services with `AccountFoundation` before upgrading. If reuse is unavoidable, manually verify detector posture out-of-band.
Resources
• PR #178 (Cluster G); regression tests in
`packages/baseline/tests/guardduty-reuse-posture.test.ts` and
`packages/baseline/tests/securityhub-reuse-retain.test.ts`.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-48037 Hulumi is an open-source toolkit that ships secure-by-default cloud and platform infrastructure components for Pulumi. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure weakness