Enforce Separation of Duties for Service-Account Related Roles

ID: gcloud-iam-separation-duties

Severity: medium

Author: princechaddha

Tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,google-cloud-iam,gcp-cloud-config

Description

Ensure that separation of duties is enforced for all Google Cloud Platform (GCP) service-account related roles. This security principle prevents fraud and human error by dispersing the tasks and associated privileges for a specific business process among multiple users/members. Specifically, your GCP service accounts should not have the Service Account Admin and Service Account User roles assigned simultaneously.

YAML Source

id: gcloud-iam-separation-duties

info:
  name: Enforce Separation of Duties for Service-Account Related Roles
  author: princechaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Ensure that separation of duties is enforced for all Google Cloud Platform (GCP) service-account related roles. This security principle prevents fraud and human error by dispersing the tasks and associated privileges for a specific business process among multiple users/members. Specifically, your GCP service accounts should not have the Service Account Admin and Service Account User roles assigned simultaneously.
  impact: |
    Failure to enforce separation of duties can lead to potential security risks including fraud and error due to excessive privileges assigned to single users.
  remediation: |
    Review and modify the roles assigned to GCP service accounts ensuring that no service account has both the Service Account Admin and Service Account User roles assigned at the same time.
  reference:
    - https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-roles
  tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,google-cloud-iam,gcp-cloud-config

flow: |
  code(1)
  for(let projectId of iterate(template.projectIds)){
    set("projectId", projectId)
    code(2)
    for(let binding of iterate(template.bindings)){
      set("binding", binding)
      javascript(1)
    }
  }

self-contained: true

code:
  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud projects list --format="json(projectId)"

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: projectIds
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[].projectId'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud projects get-iam-policy $projectId --format="json"

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: bindings
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.bindings[]'

javascript:
  - code: |
      if (template.binding && Array.isArray(template.binding.members) && template.binding.role) {
        let roles = new Set();
        template.binding.members.forEach(member => {
          roles.add(template.binding.role);
        });
        if (roles.has('roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin') && roles.has('roles/iam.serviceAccountUser')) {
          Export("Violation of SoD: Both Service Account Admin and User roles are assigned to one or more members in Project: " + template.projectId);
        }
      }

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - response
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100f96977873963d4572341b480be966bc5a739857da79d46a37e5329e0925b2ff4022100a1864f94fe2f7af79914fb819cdd6bfb5b657661bc30e13243827f9161f3ea03:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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.

$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "cloud/gcp/iam/gcloud-iam-separation-duties.yaml"

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