IAM policy has a statement block with a wildcard action Affecting IAM service in AWS

Severity Framework Snyk CCSS

Rule category IAM / Least Privilege

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Frameworks

CIS-Controls CSA-CCM ISO-27001 SOC-2

Description

Policies with wildcard actions can perform all actions on the configured resources.

Set statement.action attribute to specific actions, e.g. s3:ListBucket.

data "aws_iam_policy_document" "allowed_no_wildcard" {
  statement {
    effect = "Allow"
    actions = [
      "s3:ListBucket",
    ]
  }
}