AWSManagedControlPolicyManagementAccess

Last Modified

Jul 21, 2026

July 21, 2026 at 03:02 PM UTC

Version

v1

Total Versions

1

Created

Jul 21, 2026

Actions

11

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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 change identities and their permissions

    Grants 3 permissions management actions on IAM, IAM Identity Center or Organizations, on any resource with no condition.

    organizations:attachpolicyorganizations:detachpolicyorganizations:updatepolicy

    Use with caution: Grant it only to identity administrators, and protect your admin roles and SCPs with a permissions boundary or an SCP of their own.

Policy Document

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{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": {
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": [
          "organizations:DescribePolicy",
          "organizations:UpdatePolicy",
          "organizations:ListPolicies",
          "organizations:ListRoots",
          "organizations:CreatePolicy",
          "organizations:AttachPolicy",
          "organizations:DetachPolicy",
          "organizations:DeletePolicy",
          "organizations:TagResource",
          "organizations:UntagResource",
          "organizations:ListTagsForResource"
        ],
        "Resource": "*"
      }
    },
    "VersionId": "v1",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-07-21T14:27:23+00:00"
  }
}

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3 permissions management, incl. organizations:AttachPolicy: organizations:AttachPolicy, organizations:DetachPolicy, organizations:UpdatePolicy