feat: add AWS ARN detection to prevent account ID exposure

[wz-gsa]

Summary

Add custom gitleaks rule to detect hardcoded AWS ARNs containing 12-digit account IDs, which can reveal infrastructure topology useful for reconnaissance attacks.

Closes #111

Implementation

Detection Pattern

arn:aws(-us-gov|-cn)?:[a-z0-9-]+:[a-z0-9-]*:[0-9]{12}:[a-zA-Z0-9/_=+.@:-]+

Covers all AWS partitions:

• aws (commercial)
• aws-us-gov (GovCloud)
• aws-cn (China)

Allowlist (Safe Patterns)

Pattern	Example	Rationale
Variable interpolation	${ACCOUNT_ID}	Runtime substitution
S3 bucket ARNs	arn:aws:s3:::bucket	No account ID in format
Wildcard accounts	arn:aws:iam::*:role/Service	Policy statements
Documentation examples	123456789012	AWS docs standard IDs

Security Rationale

While AWS account IDs aren't credentials, they:

• Reveal infrastructure topology
• Enable targeted reconnaissance
• Reduce attacker search space
• Can be correlated with other leaked data

Testing

8 comprehensive tests covering:

• Blocked: Hardcoded IAM, GovCloud, China partition ARNs
• Allowed: Variable interpolation, S3, wildcards, documentation examples

✓ make lint - 15/15 checks passed
✓ make test - 8 test files, all passing

Impact Analysis

Scanned precommit-diaspora workspace:

• 0 false positives in caulking, pre-commit-templates, style-management-service
• Existing ARN usage (when present) uses variable interpolation patterns

Consensus Review

7/7 agent consensus vote approved (higher_order Bayesian strategy):

• Software Architect: ✅ (0.92 confidence)
• Security Engineer: ✅ (0.92 confidence)
• Developer Experience: ✅ (0.92 confidence)
• AI/ML Engineer: ✅ (0.92 confidence)
• Product Manager: ✅ (0.92 confidence)
• Contrarian Analyst: ✅ (0.88 confidence)
• Scope Steward: ✅ (0.88 confidence)

References

• Original issue: caulking should alert on ARNs (AWS Resources)  #68 (closed as duplicate)
• AWS ARN format: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference-arns.html
• Regex contribution from @bengerman13

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Co-authored-by: OpenCode Agent agent@gsa.gov

[pburkholder]

test script needs to use the test-helper
test script needs to be less verbose

[wz-gsa]

Real-World Validation Against cloud-gov Repos

Searched arn:aws patterns across cloud-gov GitHub repos to validate the detection rule.

Safe Patterns (Correctly ALLOWED)

Pattern Type	Example	Prevalence
Variable interpolation	arn:aws-us-gov:iam::${local.account_id}:role/...	Very common
S3 bucket ARNs	arn:aws:s3:::bucket-name	Common
AWS managed	arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/...	Some
Route53	arn:aws:route53:::hostedzone/...	Some
Doc placeholders	arn:aws:iam::<account-id>:mfa/...	Some

Test Fixtures (Correctly ALLOWED via allowlist)

Found test code using AWS documentation example account IDs (123456789012, 000000000000). These are correctly permitted by the allowlist.

Repository	Context
aws-broker	Unit test mocks for IAM policies/roles
csb	SES/SNS test fixtures
external-domain-broker	Integration test fixtures

Regex Validation

=== Test fixtures (correctly allowed) ===
✅ arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/TestPolicy (doc example ID)
✅ arn:aws:iam::000000000000:server-certificate/test (zeros placeholder)

=== Variable interpolation (correctly allowed) ===
✅ arn:aws-us-gov:iam::${local.account_id}:role/Bootstrap-Terraform-Deployer
✅ arn:aws:s3:::cg-billing-service
✅ arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicy
✅ arn:aws:route53:::hostedzone/Z1234567890

Conclusion

The rule correctly:

• Allows variable interpolation (most common pattern in Terraform)
• Allows S3, Route53, and AWS-managed ARNs (no account ID)
• Allows test fixtures using documentation example IDs
• Allows documentation placeholders (<account-id>)

The false positive rate in cloud-gov repos is effectively zero for properly written Terraform and test code.