AWSAppRunnerFullAccess

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Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:25 PM UTC

Version

v1

Total Versions

1

Created

Jan 11, 2022

Actions

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Risk

High

An unrestricted escalation path, identity administration, secret reads or the power to switch off security monitoring. Read from this policy document alone: trust policies, boundaries and SCPs in your account still decide what actually succeeds. How this is assessed

  • High

    Can take over existing resources that run as another role

    Grants every action of 1 documented escalation path on any resource with no condition.

    Use with caution: List the roles attached to the functions, instances, pipelines or notebooks it can modify: the holder effectively has them too.

  • Medium

    Can launch resources that run as a more privileged role

    Grants the actions of 1 documented escalation path, but only on named resources or under a condition. Review that scope before trusting it.

    • apprunner-001iam:PassRole + apprunner:CreateServicescoped
      • iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService

    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.

  • Medium

    Full apprunner access on every resource

    Uses apprunner:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to that service later is granted too.

    apprunner:*

    Use with caution: The grant grows every time the service does. For long-lived access, prefer a policy that lists the actions you actually need.

Policy Document

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{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/apprunner.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAppRunner",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "iam:AWSServiceName": "apprunner.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:PassRole",
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "iam:PassedToService": "apprunner.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AppRunnerAdminAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "apprunner:*",
          "Resource": "*"
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v1",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2022-01-11T04:02:09+00:00"
  }
}

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