AWSIoTDeviceDefenderReplaceDefaultPolicyMitigationAction

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March 12, 2026 at 09:26 PM UTC

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Aug 7, 2019

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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 rewrite resource policies and sharing
Grants 1 permissions management action across 1 service (iot) on any resource, enough to share resources outside the account.
iot:createpolicyversion
Use with caution: Turn on IAM Access Analyzer external access findings, and keep account-level guards like S3 Block Public Access enabled.

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21{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iot:CreatePolicyVersion"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v1",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2019-08-07T17:04:57+00:00"
  }
}