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Unapproved IAM Policy Attachments

ID: iam-unapproved-policy

Severity: high

Author: princechaddha

Tags: cloud,devops,aws,amazon,iam,ssl,tls,aws-cloud-config

Description

Section titled “Description”

Checks for the attachment of unapproved Amazon IAM managed policies to IAM roles, users, or groups, ensuring compliance with organizational access policies

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: iam-unapproved-policy
info:
  name: Unapproved IAM Policy Attachments
  author: princechaddha
  severity: high
  description: |
    Checks for the attachment of unapproved Amazon IAM managed policies to IAM roles, users, or groups, ensuring compliance with organizational access policies
  reference:
    - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/get-policy.html
  tags: cloud,devops,aws,amazon,iam,ssl,tls,aws-cloud-config


self-contained: true
code:
  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      aws iam get-policy  --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonRDSFullAccess  --query 'Policy.{"AttachmentCount": AttachmentCount}'


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "AttachmentCount"


      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - '"AttachmentCount": 0'
        negative: true


    extractors:


      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"Unapproved IAM policy is used within your AWS cloud account"'
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Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "cloud/aws/iam/iam-unapproved-policy.yaml"

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