AWSResourceExplorerOrganizationsAccess

Last Modified

Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:26 PM UTC

Version

v1

Total Versions

1

Created

Nov 14, 2023

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Risk

Medium

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 2 permissions management actions across 1 service (resource-explorer-2) on any resource, enough to share resources outside the account.

    resource-explorer-2:deleteresourcepolicyresource-explorer-2: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 resource-explorer-2 access on every resource

    Uses resource-explorer-2:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to that service later is granted too.

    resource-explorer-2:*

    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.

Policy Document

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{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "ReadOnlyAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "resource-explorer-2:*",
            "ec2:DescribeRegions",
            "ram:ListResources",
            "ram:GetResourceShares",
            "organizations:ListAccounts",
            "organizations:ListRoots",
            "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent",
            "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
            "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
            "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
            "organizations:DescribeOrganization"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "ResourceExplorerGetSLRAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:GetRole"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/resource-explorer-2.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForResourceExplorer"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "ResourceExplorerCreateSLRAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
          ],
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:AWSServiceName": [
                "resource-explorer-2.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "OrganizationsAdministratorAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess",
            "organizations:DisableAWSServiceAccess",
            "organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator",
            "organizations:DeregisterDelegatedAdministrator"
          ],
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "organizations:ServicePrincipal": [
                "resource-explorer-2.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v1",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2023-11-14T17:01:12+00:00"
  }
}

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