AWSCloudTrail - CloudFormation policy created then used for privilege escalation

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Identifies creation of IAM policies that grant CloudFormation and IAM permissions commonly used for privilege escalation, followed by attachment activity to a user, role, or group. Review whether the new policy and any subsequent attachment were authorized because this pattern can enable an attacker to create or elevate access.

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution Amazon Web Services
ID efdc3cff-f006-426f-97fd-4657862f7b9a
Severity High
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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