AWSCodeBuildAdminAccess

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Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:25 PM UTC

Version

v20

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Created

Feb 12, 2026

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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 2 documented escalation paths on any resource with no condition, and 1 more in a scoped form.
- codebuild-002codebuild:StartBuildunrestricted
- codebuild-003codebuild:StartBuildBatchunrestricted
- ssm-001ssm:StartSessionscoped
  - ssm:StartSession: on arn:aws:ecs:*:*:task/*/*
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 rewrite resource policies and sharing
Grants 2 permissions management actions across 1 service (codebuild) on any resource, enough to share resources outside the account.
codebuild:deleteresourcepolicycodebuild:putresourcepolicy
Use with caution: Turn on IAM Access Analyzer external access findings, and keep account-level guards like S3 Block Public Access enabled.
Medium
Full codebuild access on every resource
Uses codebuild:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to that service later is granted too.
codebuild:*
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.

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156{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "AWSServicesAccess",
          "Action": [
            "codebuild:*",
            "codecommit:GetBranch",
            "codecommit:GetCommit",
            "codecommit:GetRepository",
            "codecommit:ListBranches",
            "codecommit:ListRepositories",
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
            "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
            "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
            "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
            "ecr:DescribeRepositories",
            "ecr:ListImages",
            "elasticfilesystem:DescribeFileSystems",
            "events:DeleteRule",
            "events:DescribeRule",
            "events:DisableRule",
            "events:EnableRule",
            "events:ListTargetsByRule",
            "events:ListRuleNamesByTarget",
            "events:PutRule",
            "events:PutTargets",
            "events:RemoveTargets",
            "logs:GetLogEvents",
            "s3:GetBucketLocation",
            "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
          ],
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CWLDeleteLogGroupAccess",
          "Action": [
            "logs:DeleteLogGroup"
          ],
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/codebuild/*:log-stream:*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "SSMParameterWriteAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ssm:PutParameter"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:parameter/CodeBuild/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "SSMStartSessionAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ssm:StartSession"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ecs:*:*:task/*/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "SSMOpenDataChannelAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ssmmessages:OpenDataChannel"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:session/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CodeStarConnectionsReadWriteAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "codestar-connections:CreateConnection",
            "codestar-connections:DeleteConnection",
            "codestar-connections:UpdateConnectionInstallation",
            "codestar-connections:TagResource",
            "codestar-connections:UntagResource",
            "codestar-connections:ListConnections",
            "codestar-connections:ListInstallationTargets",
            "codestar-connections:ListTagsForResource",
            "codestar-connections:GetConnection",
            "codestar-connections:GetIndividualAccessToken",
            "codestar-connections:GetInstallationUrl",
            "codestar-connections:PassConnection",
            "codestar-connections:StartOAuthHandshake",
            "codestar-connections:UseConnection"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:codestar-connections:*:*:connection/*",
            "arn:aws:codeconnections:*:*:connection/*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CodeStarNotificationsReadWriteAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "codestar-notifications:CreateNotificationRule",
            "codestar-notifications:DescribeNotificationRule",
            "codestar-notifications:UpdateNotificationRule",
            "codestar-notifications:DeleteNotificationRule",
            "codestar-notifications:Subscribe",
            "codestar-notifications:Unsubscribe"
          ],
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "ArnLike": {
              "codestar-notifications:NotificationsForResource": "arn:aws:codebuild:*:*:project/*"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CodeStarNotificationsListAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "codestar-notifications:ListNotificationRules",
            "codestar-notifications:ListEventTypes",
            "codestar-notifications:ListTargets",
            "codestar-notifications:ListTagsforResource"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CodeStarNotificationsSNSTopicCreateAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "sns:CreateTopic",
            "sns:SetTopicAttributes"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:sns:*:*:codestar-notifications*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "SNSTopicListAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "sns:ListTopics",
            "sns:GetTopicAttributes"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CodeStarNotificationsChatbotAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "chatbot:DescribeSlackChannelConfigurations",
            "chatbot:ListMicrosoftTeamsChannelConfigurations"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v20",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-02-12T18:01:51+00:00"
  }
}