AWSCloudTrail - Privilege escalation via CloudFormation policy

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Detects creation of inline IAM policies with CloudFormation and IAM permissions associated with privilege escalation pathways, including iam:PassRole plus stack creation capabilities. This pattern can enable indirect elevation and should be investigated for unauthorized policy changes.

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution Amazon Web Services
ID 719d5204-10ab-4b1f-aee1-da7326750260
Severity Medium
Status Available
Kind Scheduled
Tactics PrivilegeEscalation
Techniques 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 "PutGroupPolicy,PutRolePolicy,PutUserPolicy"

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