Lateral movement

Privileged Role – Group Management

Platform(s)
Compliance Frameworks
  • Brazilian General Data Protection (LGPD)
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  • CCM-CSA
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  • CCPA
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  • cis_8
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  • CPRA
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  • Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Best Practices
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  • essential_8_au
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  • iso_27001_2022
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  • iso_27002_2022
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  • Mitre ATT&CK
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  • New Zealand Information Security Manual
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  • NIST 800-171
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  • NIST 800-53
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  • PDPA
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  • pipeda
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  • UK Cyber Essentials

Description

An IAM Role is an identity with permission policies that determine what the identity can do in AWS. A role does not have any credentials (password or access keys) associated with it. Instead of being uniquely associated with one person, a role is intended to be assumable by anyone who needs it. The role {AwsIamRole} was found with permissive permissions that allows the service or user with these permissions the ability to add a user to any group in the account. Any member of a group gains any privileges granted to that group. An attacker may use this ability to add themselves to a group which has been granted higher privileges than the user's original ones, which may ultimately lead to full account takeover.