Lateral movement

Service Account Privilege Escalation – Impersonation (Project Scope)

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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  • GDPR
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  • HITRUST
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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

The Service account '{GcpIamServiceAccount}' has an IAM policy containing permissions that allow privilege escalation, at the project level. The existing permissions allow the service account to impersonate another service account, with higher permissions than their own. The service account can then utilize that to perform API calls that the service account may not be authorized to perform. The role containing these permissions is '{GcpIamServiceAccount.PolicyBindings.Role}'