AWSOpsWorksRole

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Sep 16, 2019

September 16, 2019 at 03:19 PM UTC

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Created

Feb 6, 2015

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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 change identities and their permissions
Grants 1 permissions management action on IAM, IAM Identity Center or Organizations, on any resource with no condition.
iam:passrole
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.
Medium
Can rewrite resource policies and sharing
Grants 1 permissions management action across 1 service (opsworks) on any resource, enough to share resources outside the account.
opsworks:setpermission
Use with caution: Turn on IAM Access Analyzer external access findings, and keep account-level guards like S3 Block Public Access enabled.
Medium
Full access to 2 services on every resource
Uses opsworks:*, rds:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to those services later is granted too.
opsworks:*rds:*
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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37{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
            "ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes",
            "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
            "ec2:DescribeInstances",
            "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
            "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
            "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
            "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
            "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth",
            "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
            "iam:GetRolePolicy",
            "iam:ListInstanceProfiles",
            "iam:ListRoles",
            "iam:ListUsers",
            "iam:PassRole",
            "opsworks:*",
            "rds:*"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v1",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2015-02-06T18:41:27Z"
  }
}