Severity Framework
Snyk CCSS
Rule category
IAM / Access
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- Snyk ID SNYK-CC-00752
- credit Snyk Research Team
Description
IAM policies grant permissions that can be exploited to escalate privileges. Privilege escalation can lead to unauthorized access to resources and administrative functions, compromising the security posture of the cloud environment.
How to fix?
Ensure that the policy.Statement.Action
attribute in aws_iam_policy
, aws_iam_user_policy
, aws_iam_role_policy
, aws_iam_group_policy
, and aws_iam_role
resource is not set to a value from the below list.
["*", "iam:*", "iam:CreatePolicyVersion", "iam:SetDefaultPolicyVersion", "iam:CreateAccessKey", "iam:CreateLoginProfile", "iam:UpdateLoginProfile", "iam:UpdateAccessKey", "iam:CreateServiceSpecificCredential", "iam:ResetServiceSpecificCredential", "iam:AttachUserPolicy", "iam:AttachGroupPolicy", "iam:AttachRolePolicy", "iam:PutUserPolicy", "iam:PutGroupPolicy", "iam:PutRolePolicy", "iam:AddUserToGroup", "iam:UpdateAssumeRolePolicy", "sts:AssumeRole", "iam:UploadSSHPublicKey", "iam:DeactivateMFADevice", "iam:ResyncMFADevice", "iam:UpdateSAMLProvider", "iam:ListSAMLProviders", "iam:UpdateOpenIDConnectProviderThumbprint", "iam:ListOpenIDConnectProviders"]
Example Configuration
resource "aws_iam_user" "aws-user" {
name = "basic_user"
force_destroy = true
}
resource "aws_iam_policy" "allowed-policy" {
name = "test_policy-iam"
path = "/"
description = "My test policy"
policy = jsonencode({
Version = "2012-10-17"
Statement = [
{
Action = [
"iam:CreateUser",
"iam:DeleteUserPolicy",
"iam:CreateGroup",
"iam:ListGroups"
]
Effect = "Allow"
Resource = "arn:aws:iam::*:user/$${aws:username}"
},
{
Action = ["iam:*"]
Effect = "Deny"
Resource = "arn:aws:iam::*:user/$${aws:username}"
},
]
})
}
resource "aws_iam_policy_attachment" "allowed-attachment" {
name = "iam_policy_attachment"
users = [aws_iam_user.aws-user.name]
policy_arn = aws_iam_policy.allowed-policy.arn
}
data "aws_iam_policy_document" "assume-policy" {
statement {
actions = ["sts:AssumeRole"]
principals {
type = "AWS"
identifiers = ["arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/terraform-snyk"]
}
}
}
resource "aws_iam_role" "allowed-role" {
name = "test_inline_policy_role"
assume_role_policy = data.aws_iam_policy_document.assume-policy.json
inline_policy {
name = "my_inline_policy"
policy = jsonencode({
Version = "2012-10-17"
Statement = [
{
Action = [
"iam:CreateUser",
"iam:DeleteUserPolicy",
"iam:CreateGroup",
"iam:ListGroups"
]
Effect = "Allow"
Resource = "arn:aws:iam::*:user/$${aws:username}"
},
{
Action = ["iam:*"]
Effect = "Deny"
Resource = "arn:aws:iam::*:user/$${aws:username}"
},
]
})
}
}