AWSCloudTrail - Privilege escalation with AdministratorAccess managed policy

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Detects successful attachment of the AWS managed AdministratorAccess policy to users, roles, or groups. This action can immediately grant full administrative permissions and is a high-risk privilege escalation pattern that should be validated against approved administrative activity.

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution Amazon Web Services
ID 139e7116-3884-4246-9978-c8f740770bdf
Severity Medium
Status Available
Kind Scheduled
Tactics PrivilegeEscalation, Persistence
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 "AttachGroupPolicy,AttachRolePolicy,AttachUserPolicy"

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