AWSSystemsManagerJustInTimeAccessTokenPolicy

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March 12, 2026 at 09:27 PM UTC

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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 take over existing resources that run as another role
Grants every action of 1 documented escalation path on any resource with no condition, and 1 more in a scoped form.
- ssm-001ssm:StartSessionunrestricted
- ssm-002ssm:SendCommandscoped
  - ssm:SendCommand: condition aws:CalledViaFirst, on arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*, arn:aws:ssm:*:*:managed-instance/*, arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWSSSO-CreateSSOUser
Use with caution: List the roles attached to the functions, instances, pipelines or notebooks it can modify: the holder effectively has them too.

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125{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "SsmStartSession",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ssm:StartSession"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
            "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:managed-instance/*",
            "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/SSM-SessionManagerRunShell"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "TerminateAndResumeSessionAndOpenDataChannel",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ssm:TerminateSession",
            "ssm:ResumeSession",
            "ssmmessages:OpenDataChannel"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:session/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "GuiConnect",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ssm-guiconnect:CancelConnection",
            "ssm-guiconnect:GetConnection",
            "ssm-guiconnect:StartConnection"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "SessionManagerKmsPermission",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "kms:GenerateDataKey"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "aws:ResourceTag/SystemsManagerJustInTimeNodeAccessManaged": "true"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "RdpKmsPermission",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "kms:CreateGrant"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "aws:ResourceTag/SystemsManagerJustInTimeNodeAccessManaged": "true"
            },
            "StringLike": {
              "kms:ViaService": "ssm-guiconnect.*.amazonaws.com"
            },
            "Bool": {
              "aws:ViaAWSService": "true"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "RdpStartSession",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ssm:StartSession"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
            "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:managed-instance/*",
            "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWS-StartPortForwardingSession"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "aws:CalledViaFirst": "ssm-guiconnect.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "SsmRdpSsoSetup",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "sso:ListDirectoryAssociations*",
            "identitystore:DescribeUser",
            "ssm:GetCommandInvocation"
          ],
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "aws:CalledViaFirst": "ssm-guiconnect.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "SsmRdpSsoSetupSendCommand",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ssm:SendCommand"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
            "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:managed-instance/*",
            "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWSSSO-CreateSSOUser"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "aws:CalledViaFirst": "ssm-guiconnect.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v6",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-02-12T18:02:43+00:00"
  }
}