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A pagination fix in the WAFv2 collector. Three files, no new checks.

What this fixes

ListWebACLs returns at most 100 Web ACLs per call and sets NextMarker while more remain. The
collector issued a single call and read response["WebACLs"], so in any account with more than one
page of Web ACLs every Web ACL past the first 100 was silently dropped from the inventory.

The consequence is a wrong finding as well as an absent one, and the wrong one is a false FAIL on a
protected resource.
Five checks consume wafv2_client.web_acls, in three services:

check behaviour on a truncated inventory
wafv2_webacl_logging_enabled not assessed — an absent finding
wafv2_webacl_rule_logging_enabled not assessed — an absent finding
wafv2_webacl_with_rules not assessed — an absent finding
elbv2_waf_acl_attached false FAIL
cognito_user_pool_waf_acl_attached false FAIL

The last two are the ones that matter. Both default to FAIL and flip to PASS only when an
inventoried ACL is found referencing the resource — elbv2_waf_acl_attached:13 sets FAIL before scanning
wafv2_client.web_acls at :17, and cognito_user_pool_waf_acl_attached:11 does the same before :15.
So an ALB or user pool that is protected, by an ACL that fell past the first page, is reported
unprotected. That is a false positive on a security control, not a gap in coverage.

One precision: elbv2_waf_acl_attached also scans wafregional_client.web_acls, so an ALB protected by a
WAFv1 ACL still PASSes. The false FAIL is specific to WAFv2-protected resources.

WAFv2 ships no botocore paginator for this operation — verified at the pinned botocore 1.40.61 — so
the loop is hand-rolled rather than delegated to get_paginator.

What the fix does

_paginate_web_acls follows NextMarker to the last page and yields every summary, with two guards:

  • a seen-marker set, so a marker that never clears breaks the loop instead of spinning forever;
  • an iteration cap of 1000 pages (100,000 Web ACLs at the 100-per-page limit), which can only be
    reached by a misbehaving API, since the default Web ACLs-per-Region quota is far below it.

Verification

  • 32 tests pass across tests/providers/aws/services/wafv2/, and 199 across the full set CI runs for
    this diff (cognito + elbv2 + wafv2).
  • Every line the diff adds to prowler/ is covered by those tests: 52/52.
  • The two guards are pinned by tests that assert in both directions rather than only the happy path —
    see the first disclosure below.

Disclosures

The truncation message is gated on a pending marker rather than on the iteration count alone,
because the count reaches the cap on the final pass whether or not that pass completed the
enumeration — so the count by itself flagged possible truncation on a scope whose 1000th page
carried no NextMarker and was therefore complete. A regression test pins both directions: exactly
1000 pages ending cleanly logs nothing
(test_pagination_cap_is_silent_when_the_last_page_completes_the_scan), and markers that never end
still log it (test_pagination_cap_warns_when_a_marker_is_still_pending).

With that conjunct in place the message means exactly "the loop stopped early with a marker still
pending", which is accurate both for an honestly large account and for an API that keeps handing back
a fresh marker — in the second case the enumeration genuinely was truncated at 1000 pages while the
API still claimed more.

Both pagination messages are emitted at logger.error, not logger.warning — the cap message and
the loop-detection message alike. Worth naming because the distinction is live in this very file, which
carries 10 logger.error calls against 1 logger.warning (the WAFNonexistentItemException
branch of _get_logging_configuration). A reviewer who wants a legitimately-huge account to log below
ERROR should say so; the level is a deliberate choice, not an accident of wording.

Merge order against a second WAFv2 change, measured. A separate change still in preparation adds
two WAFv2 Web ACL rule checks and also edits wafv2_service.py. A three-way merge of the two reports
exactly one conflict, in tests/providers/aws/services/wafv2/wafv2_service_test.py, and not
in wafv2_service.py — the two touch different methods. Merging this fix first is the lower-risk
order
, because the new checks then evaluate the complete Web ACL inventory. Merged second, both
checks would report cleanly on accounts whose Web ACLs run past one page while having assessed only
the first 100.

codecov/project is red on this PR, as it is across this campaign; codecov/patch is the signal that
reflects the diff, and it is green here.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed WAFv2 Web ACL discovery for accounts with multiple result pages.
    • Ensured both global and regional Web ACL listings include all available results.
    • Improved handling of empty pages, repeated pagination markers, and excessive pagination to prevent incomplete or stalled scans.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for pagination, loop detection, and maximum-page handling.

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No Conflicts

No conflict markers, and the branch merges cleanly into its base.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

WAFv2 Web ACL listing now follows NextMarker across pages for CloudFront and regional scopes. Pagination detects repeated markers, enforces a 1,000-page limit, and includes tests for normal and boundary conditions.

Changes

WAFv2 pagination

Layer / File(s) Summary
Paginated Web ACL listing
prowler/providers/aws/services/wafv2/wafv2_service.py, prowler/changelog.d/...
The service paginates CloudFront and regional ListWebACLs responses, detects repeated markers, and logs when pagination may be truncated.
Pagination behavior validation
tests/providers/aws/services/wafv2/wafv2_service_test.py
Tests cover multi-page results, empty pages with markers, repeated markers, and the 1,000-page limit.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to db57f

The change correctly expands Web ACL inventory retrieval, but the tests reuse identifiers across CloudFront and regional scopes, so they may not fully verify pagination for both scopes. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to use distinct identifiers and add scope-specific assertions.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WAFv2
  participant AWSWAFv2Client
  participant ErrorLogger
  WAFv2->>AWSWAFv2Client: Request Web ACL page
  AWSWAFv2Client-->>WAFv2: Return Web ACLs and NextMarker
  WAFv2->>AWSWAFv2Client: Request next page when marker exists
  AWSWAFv2Client-->>WAFv2: Return subsequent page
  WAFv2->>ErrorLogger: Log repeated-marker or page-cap error
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: adding pagination for WAFv2 ListWebACLs to prevent incomplete scans.
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In `@prowler/providers/aws/services/wafv2/wafv2_service.py`:
- Line 70: Update the pagination loop around the repeated-marker break and the
iterations/max_iterations check in WAFV2 service logic to track why the loop
terminated. Emit the page-cap error only when pagination actually ends because
max_iterations is reached, not when the loop guard exits after a repeated
marker; add a boundary test covering the 1000th loop entry with only 999 API
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17-24: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use distinct ACL identifiers for each scope.

WAFv2 lists both CLOUDFRONT and REGIONAL scopes, but these fixtures reuse the same ARNs. Because self.web_acls is keyed by ARN, the regional entries overwrite the CloudFront entries. The multi-page test can therefore pass even when only regional pagination works. Use separate CloudFront and regional ARNs, then assert both scope-specific results.

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In `@tests/providers/aws/services/wafv2/wafv2_service_test.py` around lines 17 -
24, Update the WAFv2 pagination fixtures and assertions around
PAGED_ACL_FIRST_ARN and PAGED_ACL_SECOND_ARN to use distinct identifiers for
CLOUDFRONT and REGIONAL scopes, preventing ARN-keyed entries from overwriting
one another. Ensure the multi-page test explicitly validates the expected
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In `@tests/providers/aws/services/wafv2/wafv2_service_test.py`:
- Around line 17-24: Update the WAFv2 pagination fixtures and assertions around
PAGED_ACL_FIRST_ARN and PAGED_ACL_SECOND_ARN to use distinct identifiers for
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ListWebACLs returns at most 100 Web ACLs per call and hands back a NextMarker, but the collector read
only the first response. Any account past 100 Web ACLs in a scope was silently scanned in part, and every
WAFv2 check then reported on an inventory that was missing entries without saying so.

The loop follows the marker, with two guards. A seen-marker set stops an API that never clears the
marker, and a 1000-page cap bounds the walk at 100K Web ACLs, far above the default per-region quota.
Which guard ended the walk is tracked explicitly rather than inferred from the counter: a repeated marker
on the final entry reaches the cap test with the same values a genuine truncation would, so the counter
alone reported the page cap as the cause of a stop the marker guard had caused.
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