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Overprivileged AWS support IAM role policy

Published Wed, Dec 22nd, 2021

Platforms

aws

Summary

AWS added an excessive s3:getObject permission to AWSSupportServiceRolePolicy IAM policy used by AWS Support teams, and removed it a day later.

Affected Services

N/A

Remediation

None required, though best practice would be to use KMS-CMK for bucket encryption and minimize privileges in resource policies.

Tracked CVEs

No tracked CVEs

References

Contributed by https://github.com/z0ph

Entry Status

Finalized

Disclosure Date

Tue, Dec 21st, 2021

Exploitability Period

-

Known ITW Exploitation

-

Detection Methods

None

Piercing Index Rating

-

Discovered by

Scott Piper, Summit Route