AWSGlueConsoleFullAccess

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Sep 10, 2026

September 10, 2026 at 09:03 PM UTC

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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 1 documented escalation path on any resource with no condition.
- glue-002glue:UpdateDevEndpointunrestricted
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 8 documented escalation paths, but only on named resources or under a condition. Review that scope before trusting it.
- cloudformation-001iam:PassRole + cloudformation:CreateStackscoped
  - iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWSGlueServiceRole*
  - cloudformation:CreateStack: on arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/aws-glue*/*
- ec2-001iam:PassRole + ec2:RunInstancesscoped
  - iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWSGlueServiceRole*
- glue-001iam:PassRole + glue:CreateDevEndpointscoped
  - iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWSGlueServiceRole*
- glue-003iam:PassRole + glue:CreateJob + glue:StartJobRunscoped
  - iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWSGlueServiceRole*
- glue-004iam:PassRole + glue:CreateJob + glue:CreateTriggerscoped
  - iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWSGlueServiceRole*
- glue-005iam:PassRole + glue:UpdateJob + glue:StartJobRunscoped
  - iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWSGlueServiceRole*
- glue-006iam:PassRole + glue:UpdateJob + glue:CreateTriggerscoped
  - iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWSGlueServiceRole*
- glue-007iam:PassRole + glue:CreateSession + glue:RunStatementscoped
  - iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWSGlueServiceRole*
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
Can read secrets
Reads Glue connection passwords, on any resource with no condition.
glue:GetConnection (via glue:*)
Use with caution: Where the holder needs only some secrets, write your own policy scoped to their ARNs or tags, and limit decryption in the KMS key policies.
Medium
Can rewrite resource policies and sharing
Grants 2 permissions management actions across 1 service (glue) on any resource, enough to share resources outside the account.
glue:deleteresourcepolicyglue: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 glue access on every resource
Uses glue:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to that service later is granted too.
glue:*
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.

IAM Access Analyzer (1)

Suggestion / REDUNDANT_RESOURCE
The 2 resource ARN(s) are redundant because they reference the same resource. Review the use of wildcards (*), or remove the resource arn:aws:s3:::aws-glue-*/* to remove the redundancy. AWS docs

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199{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "BaseAppPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "glue:*",
            "redshift:DescribeClusters",
            "redshift:DescribeClusterSubnetGroups",
            "iam:ListRoles",
            "iam:ListUsers",
            "iam:ListGroups",
            "iam:ListRolePolicies",
            "iam:GetRole",
            "iam:GetRolePolicy",
            "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
            "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
            "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
            "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
            "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints",
            "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
            "ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute",
            "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
            "ec2:DescribeInstances",
            "ec2:DescribeImages",
            "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
            "rds:DescribeDBClusters",
            "rds:DescribeDBSubnetGroups",
            "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
            "s3:ListBucket",
            "s3:GetBucketAcl",
            "s3:GetBucketLocation",
            "cloudformation:ListStacks",
            "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
            "cloudformation:GetTemplateSummary",
            "dynamodb:ListTables",
            "kms:ListAliases",
            "kms:DescribeKey",
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
            "cloudwatch:ListDashboards",
            "databrew:ListRecipes",
            "databrew:ListRecipeVersions",
            "databrew:DescribeRecipe"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "s3:GetObject",
            "s3:PutObject"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:s3:::aws-glue-*/*",
            "arn:aws:s3:::*/*aws-glue-*/*",
            "arn:aws:s3:::aws-glue-*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "tag:GetResources"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "s3:CreateBucket"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:s3:::aws-glue-*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "logs:GetLogEvents"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:logs:*:*:/aws-glue/*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudformation:CreateStack",
            "cloudformation:DeleteStack"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/aws-glue*/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudFormationTagOnCreate",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudformation:TagResource",
            "cloudformation:UntagResource"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/aws-glue*/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "cloudformation:CreateAction": [
                "CreateStack"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:RunInstances"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:key-pair/*",
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:image/*",
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*",
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:TerminateInstances",
            "ec2:CreateTags",
            "ec2:DeleteTags"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "ec2:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/aws-glue-*/*"
            },
            "StringEquals": {
              "ec2:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:logical-id": "ZeppelinInstance"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Action": [
            "iam:PassRole"
          ],
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWSGlueServiceRole*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "iam:PassedToService": [
                "glue.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Action": [
            "iam:PassRole"
          ],
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWSGlueServiceNotebookRole*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "iam:PassedToService": [
                "ec2.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Action": [
            "iam:PassRole"
          ],
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:iam::*:role/service-role/AWSGlueServiceRole*"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "iam:PassedToService": [
                "glue.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v15",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-09-10T20:27:08+00:00"
  }
}

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