AWSIoTThingsRegistration

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Oct 5, 2020

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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 4 permissions management actions across 1 service (iot) on any resource, enough to share resources outside the account.
iot:attachpolicyiot:attachprincipalpolicyiot:createpolicyiot:detachpolicy
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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50{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iot:AddThingToThingGroup",
            "iot:AttachPolicy",
            "iot:AttachPrincipalPolicy",
            "iot:AttachThingPrincipal",
            "iot:CreateCertificateFromCsr",
            "iot:CreatePolicy",
            "iot:CreateThing",
            "iot:DescribeCertificate",
            "iot:DescribeThing",
            "iot:DescribeThingGroup",
            "iot:DescribeThingType",
            "iot:DetachPolicy",
            "iot:DetachThingPrincipal",
            "iot:GetPolicy",
            "iot:ListAttachedPolicies",
            "iot:ListPolicyPrincipals",
            "iot:ListPrincipalPolicies",
            "iot:ListPrincipalThings",
            "iot:ListTargetsForPolicy",
            "iot:ListThingGroupsForThing",
            "iot:ListThingPrincipals",
            "iot:RegisterCertificate",
            "iot:RegisterThing",
            "iot:RemoveThingFromThingGroup",
            "iot:UpdateCertificate",
            "iot:UpdateThing",
            "iot:UpdateThingGroupsForThing",
            "iot:AddThingToBillingGroup",
            "iot:DescribeBillingGroup",
            "iot:RemoveThingFromBillingGroup"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v3",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2020-10-05T19:20:12+00:00"
  }
}