AWSSSOServiceRolePolicy

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Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:26 PM UTC

Version

v18

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Created

Feb 11, 2025

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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 grant itself more permissions
Grants the actions of 2 documented escalation paths, but only on named resources or under a condition. Review that scope before trusting it.
- iam-005iam:PutRolePolicyscoped
  - iam:PutRolePolicy: condition aws:PrincipalOrgMasterAccountId, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-reserved/sso.amazonaws.com/*
- iam-009iam:AttachRolePolicyscoped
  - iam:AttachRolePolicy: condition aws:PrincipalOrgMasterAccountId, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-reserved/sso.amazonaws.com/*
Use with caution: Check which roles, users or policies fall inside the scope shown above. Within it the escalation works as documented, so keep privileged principals out of it.
Medium
Can take over other users or roles
Grants the actions of 3 documented escalation paths, but only on named resources or under a condition. Review that scope before trusting it.
- iam-012iam:UpdateAssumeRolePolicyscoped
  - iam:UpdateAssumeRolePolicy: condition aws:PrincipalOrgMasterAccountId, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-reserved/sso.amazonaws.com/*
- iam-019iam:AttachRolePolicy + iam:UpdateAssumeRolePolicyscoped
  - iam:AttachRolePolicy: condition aws:PrincipalOrgMasterAccountId, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-reserved/sso.amazonaws.com/*
  - iam:UpdateAssumeRolePolicy: condition aws:PrincipalOrgMasterAccountId, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-reserved/sso.amazonaws.com/*
- iam-021iam:PutRolePolicy + iam:UpdateAssumeRolePolicyscoped
  - iam:PutRolePolicy: condition aws:PrincipalOrgMasterAccountId, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-reserved/sso.amazonaws.com/*
  - iam:UpdateAssumeRolePolicy: condition aws:PrincipalOrgMasterAccountId, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-reserved/sso.amazonaws.com/*
Use with caution: Check which roles, users or policies fall inside the scope shown above. Within it the escalation works as documented, so keep privileged principals out of it.

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165{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "IAMRoleProvisioningActions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:AttachRolePolicy",
            "iam:CreateRole",
            "iam:PutRolePolicy",
            "iam:UpdateRole",
            "iam:UpdateRoleDescription",
            "iam:UpdateAssumeRolePolicy",
            "iam:PutRolePermissionsBoundary",
            "iam:DeleteRolePermissionsBoundary"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-reserved/sso.amazonaws.com/*"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringNotEquals": {
              "aws:PrincipalOrgMasterAccountId": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "IAMRoleReadActions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:GetRole",
            "iam:ListRoles"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "IAMRoleCleanupActions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:DeleteRole",
            "iam:DeleteRolePolicy",
            "iam:DetachRolePolicy",
            "iam:ListRolePolicies",
            "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-reserved/sso.amazonaws.com/*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "IAMSLRCleanupActions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:DeleteServiceLinkedRole",
            "iam:GetServiceLinkedRoleDeletionStatus",
            "iam:DeleteRole",
            "iam:GetRole"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/sso.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForSSO"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "IAMSAMLProviderCreationAction",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:CreateSAMLProvider"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:iam::*:saml-provider/AWSSSO_*"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringNotEquals": {
              "aws:PrincipalOrgMasterAccountId": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "IAMSAMLProviderUpdateAction",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:UpdateSAMLProvider"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:iam::*:saml-provider/AWSSSO_*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "IAMSAMLProviderCleanupActions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:DeleteSAMLProvider",
            "iam:GetSAMLProvider"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:iam::*:saml-provider/AWSSSO_*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "organizations:DescribeAccount",
            "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
            "organizations:ListAccounts",
            "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
            "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowUnauthAppForDirectory",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ds:UnauthorizeApplication"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowDescribeForDirectory",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ds:DescribeDirectories",
            "ds:DescribeTrusts"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowDescribeAndListOperationsOnIdentitySource",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "identitystore:DescribeUser",
            "identitystore:DescribeGroup",
            "identitystore:ListGroups",
            "identitystore:ListUsers"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowDeleteSyncProfile",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "identity-sync:DeleteSyncProfile"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:identity-sync:*:*:profile/*"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v18",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2025-02-11T18:37:06+00:00"
  }
}