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Enable Self-Service Password Change for IAM Users

ID: iam-user-password-change

Severity: high

Author: princechaddha

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

Description

Section titled “Description”

Verifies that all Amazon IAM users have permissions to change their own console passwords, allowing access to ‘iam:ChangePassword’ for their accounts and ‘iam:GetAccountPasswordPolicy’ action.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: iam-user-password-change
info:
  name: Enable Self-Service Password Change for IAM Users
  author: princechaddha
  severity: high
  description: |
    Verifies that all Amazon IAM users have permissions to change their own console passwords, allowing access to 'iam:ChangePassword' for their accounts and 'iam:GetAccountPasswordPolicy' action.
  reference:
    - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/get-account-password-policy.html
  tags: cloud,devops,aws,amazon,iam,aws-cloud-config


self-contained: true
code:
  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      aws iam get-account-password-policy --query 'PasswordPolicy.AllowUsersToChangePassword'


    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - "false"


    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"AllowUsersToChangePassword Policy is not enabled in your AWS account"'
# digest: 490a0046304402206bd744f6df0e569c9634f618174512b28065776339fff87a4f1d17356a433ffe022056631adaab285577d9c4c2c30749b91fbfb81d169bc1759bdd237fb845908bae:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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-user-password-change.yaml"

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