diff --git a/src/endpoint/s3/ops/s3_put_bucket_lifecycle.js b/src/endpoint/s3/ops/s3_put_bucket_lifecycle.js
index b54024cc4f..66fc433d8e 100644
--- a/src/endpoint/s3/ops/s3_put_bucket_lifecycle.js
+++ b/src/endpoint/s3/ops/s3_put_bucket_lifecycle.js
@@ -97,6 +97,11 @@ async function put_bucket_lifecycle(req) {
         if (rule.Status?.length !== 1) {
             dbg.error('Rule should have status', rule);
             throw new S3Error(S3Error.InvalidArgument);
+        } else if (rule.status?.length == 1) {
+            if (rule.Status[0] !== "Enabled" || rule.Status[0] !== "Disabled") {
+                dbg.error('Rule should not have status value: ', rule.Status[0]);
+                throw new S3Error({ ...S3Error.MalformedXML, message: 'The XML you provided was not well-formed or did not validate against our published schema'});
+            }
         }
         current_rule.status = rule.Status[0];