AWSCloudTrail - Privilege escalation with admin managed policy

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Detects successful attachment of admin-related managed IAM policies to users, roles, or groups, excluding the dedicated AdministratorAccess and FullAccess patterns handled by other detections. This behavior may indicate unauthorized privilege escalation and should be validated against approved administrative changes.

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution Amazon Web Services
ID 49ce5322-60d7-4b02-ad79-99f650aa5790
Severity Medium
Status Available
Kind Scheduled
Tactics PrivilegeEscalation, Persistence
Techniques T1098.003
Required Connectors AWS
Source View on GitHub

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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