Broad IAM permissions in IAM policy Affecting IAM service in AWS


Severity

0.0
medium
0
10
    Severity Framework
    Snyk CCSS
    Rule category
    IAM / Access Control

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CC-00346
  • credit Snyk Research Team

Description

The IAM policy allows all IAM actions on resource.

How to fix?

Set Action attribute in Properties.PolicyDocument to specific actions e.g. iam:ListUsers.