AWSCloudTrail - Creation of CRUD KMS policy and then privilege escalation

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Identifies creation of IAM policies that grant permissions for broad KMS CRUD actions, followed by attachment activity to a principal. This sequence can be used to expand access to encryption keys or disable protections and should be investigated as possible privilege escalation.

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution Amazon Web Services
ID 8e15998e-1e32-4b6d-abd1-e8482e8f3def
Severity Medium
Status Available
Kind Scheduled
Tactics DefenseEvasion, PrivilegeEscalation, Persistence
Techniques T1484, T1098.003
Required Connectors AWS
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Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table Selection Criteria Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
AWSCloudTrail EventName in "AttachGroupPolicy,AttachRolePolicy,AttachUserPolicy,CreatePolicy,CreatePolicyVersion"

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