AWS-SSM-RemediationAutomation-AdministrationRolePolicy

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The same capabilities in a scoped form, resource policy writes, reads across all data, or full access to a whole service. Read from this policy document alone: trust policies, boundaries and SCPs in your account still decide what actually succeeds. How this is assessed

Medium
Can take over other users or roles
Grants the actions of 1 documented escalation path, but only on named resources or under a condition. Review that scope before trusting it.
- sts-001sts:AssumeRolescoped
  - sts:AssumeRole: condition aws:ResourceAccount, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWS-SSM-RemediationExecutionRole*
Use with caution: Check which roles, users or policies fall inside the scope shown above. Within it the escalation works as documented, so keep privileged principals out of it.

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Warning / TYPE_MISMATCH
Use the operator type String instead of operator ARN for the condition key kms:EncryptionContext:aws:s3:arn. AWS docs

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109{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "AllowReadOnlyAccessSSMResource",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ssm:DescribeAutomationExecutions",
            "ssm:DescribeAutomationStepExecutions",
            "ssm:GetAutomationExecution"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowExecuteSSMAutomation",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ssm:StartAutomationExecution"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWS-OrchestrateUnmanagedEC2Actions",
            "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWS-RemediateSSMAgent*",
            "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-execution/*",
            "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-definition/AWS-OrchestrateUnmanagedEC2Actions:*",
            "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-definition/AWS-RemediateSSMAgent*:*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowKMSOperations",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "kms:Decrypt",
            "kms:GenerateDataKey"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "aws:ResourceTag/SystemsManagerManaged": "true"
            },
            "ArnLike": {
              "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:s3:arn": "arn:aws:s3:::do-not-delete-ssm-diagnosis-*"
            },
            "StringLike": {
              "kms:ViaService": "s3.*.amazonaws.com"
            },
            "Bool": {
              "aws:ViaAWSService": "true"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowAssumeRemediationExecutionRoleWithinAccount",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWS-SSM-RemediationExecutionRole*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowPassRoleOnSelfToSsm",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:PassRole",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWS-SSM-RemediationAdminRole*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:PassedToService": "ssm.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowReadWriteToSsmDiagnosisBucketInSameAccount",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "s3:PutObject",
            "s3:GetObject",
            "s3:DeleteObject"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::do-not-delete-ssm-diagnosis-*/actions/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowListBucketOnSsmDiagnosisBucketInSameAccount",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "s3:ListBucket"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::do-not-delete-ssm-diagnosis-*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v4",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-02-12T17:57:43+00:00"
  }
}