Lateral movementPrivileged Role – Group Management
Platform(s)
Compliance Frameworks
- Brazilian General Data Protection (LGPD) ,
- CCM-CSA ,
- CCPA ,
- cis_8 ,
- CPRA ,
- Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Best Practices ,
- essential_8_au ,
- iso_27001_2022 ,
- iso_27002_2022 ,
- Mitre ATT&CK ,
- New Zealand Information Security Manual ,
- NIST 800-171 ,
- NIST 800-53 ,
- PDPA ,
- pipeda ,
- 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.
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