AWSServiceRoleForSMS

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Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:26 PM UTC

Version

v10

Total Versions

Created

Oct 15, 2020

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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 launch resources that run as a more privileged role
Grants the actions of 3 documented escalation paths, but only on named resources or under a condition. Review that scope before trusting it.
- cloudformation-001iam:PassRole + cloudformation:CreateStackscoped
  - iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService
  - cloudformation:CreateStack: condition cloudformation:ResourceTypes, on arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*
- cloudformation-005cloudformation:CreateChangeSet + cloudformation:ExecuteChangeSetscoped
  - cloudformation:CreateChangeSet: condition cloudformation:ResourceTypes, on arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*
  - cloudformation:ExecuteChangeSet: on arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*
- ec2-001iam:PassRole + ec2:RunInstancesscoped
  - iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService
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 existing resources that run as another role
Grants the actions of 2 documented escalation paths, but only on named resources or under a condition. Review that scope before trusting it.
- ec2-002ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute + ec2:StopInstances + ec2:StartInstancesscoped
  - ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute: condition ec2:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id
  - ec2:StopInstances: condition ec2:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id
  - ec2:StartInstances: condition ec2:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id
- ssm-002ssm:SendCommandscoped
  - ssm:SendCommand: on arn:aws:ssm:*::document/AWS-RunRemoteScript, arn:aws:s3:::sms-app-*
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
Flagged by AWS IAM Access Analyzer
AWS's own policy validation raises 1 security warning: STRING_LIKE_OPERATOR_WITH_ARN_CONDITION_KEYS.
- Use the operator type ARN instead of operator string for the condition key iam:AssociatedResourceArn.
Use with caution: Read AWS's finding and the documentation it links to.

IAM Access Analyzer (1)

Security warning / STRING_LIKE_OPERATOR_WITH_ARN_CONDITION_KEYS
Use the operator type ARN instead of operator string for the condition key iam:AssociatedResourceArn. AWS docs

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290{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudformation:CreateChangeSet",
            "cloudformation:CreateStack"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*",
          "Condition": {
            "Null": {
              "cloudformation:ResourceTypes": "false"
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                "AWS::EC2::Instance",
                "AWS::ApplicationInsights::Application",
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            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
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            "cloudformation:DeleteStack",
            "cloudformation:ExecuteChangeSet",
            "cloudformation:DeleteChangeSet",
            "cloudformation:DescribeChangeSet",
            "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
            "cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents",
            "cloudformation:DescribeStackResource",
            "cloudformation:DescribeStackResources",
            "cloudformation:GetTemplate"
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          "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*"
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          "Effect": "Allow",
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            "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
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            "sms:GetReplicationJobs",
            "sms:GetReplicationRuns",
            "sms:GetServers",
            "sms:ImportServerCatalog",
            "sms:StartOnDemandReplicationRun",
            "sms:UpdateReplicationJob"
          ],
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        },
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          "Effect": "Allow",
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          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:ssm:*::document/AWS-RunRemoteScript",
            "arn:aws:s3:::sms-app-*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
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          "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
          "Condition": {
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              "ssm:resourceTag/UseForSMSApplicationValidation": [
                "true"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ssm:CancelCommand",
            "ssm:GetCommandInvocation"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:CreateTags",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "ec2:CreateAction": "CopySnapshot"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:CopySnapshot",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "aws:RequestTag/SMSJobId": [
                "sms-*"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:ModifySnapshotAttribute",
            "ec2:DeleteSnapshot"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "ec2:ResourceTag/SMSJobId": [
                "sms-*"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:CopyImage",
            "ec2:DescribeImages",
            "ec2:DescribeInstances",
            "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
            "ec2:DescribeSnapshotAttribute",
            "ec2:DeregisterImage",
            "ec2:ImportImage",
            "ec2:DescribeImportImageTasks",
            "ec2:GetEbsEncryptionByDefault"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:GetRole",
            "iam:GetInstanceProfile"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:DisassociateIamInstanceProfile",
            "ec2:AssociateIamInstanceProfile",
            "ec2:ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "ec2:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:PassRole",
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:PassedToService": "ec2.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
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        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
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          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
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          ],
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        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
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            "ec2:StopInstances",
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            "ec2:TerminateInstances"
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          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
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          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "applicationinsights:Describe*",
            "applicationinsights:List*",
            "cloudformation:ListStackResources"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "applicationinsights:CreateApplication",
            "applicationinsights:CreateComponent",
            "applicationinsights:UpdateApplication",
            "applicationinsights:DeleteApplication",
            "applicationinsights:UpdateComponentConfiguration",
            "applicationinsights:DeleteComponent"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:applicationinsights:*:*:application/resource-group/sms-app-*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "resource-groups:CreateGroup",
            "resource-groups:GetGroup",
            "resource-groups:UpdateGroup",
            "resource-groups:DeleteGroup"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:resource-groups:*:*:group/sms-app-*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "aws:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/application-insights.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForApplicationInsights"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:AWSServiceName": "application-insights.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v10",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2020-10-15T17:28:13+00:00"
  }
}