AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTrackerAdminPolicy

Last Modified

Jul 16, 2026

July 16, 2026 at 06:03 PM UTC

Version

v9

Total Versions

10

Created

Jul 16, 2026

Actions

56

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, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/DeadlineResourceTrackerAccess*
      • cloudformation:CreateStack: on arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/DeadlineResourceTracker*
    • lambda-002iam:PassRole + lambda:CreateFunction + lambda:CreateEventSourceMappingscoped
      • iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/DeadlineResourceTrackerAccess*
      • lambda:CreateFunction: on arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:DeadlineResourceTracker*
      • lambda:CreateEventSourceMapping: condition lambda:FunctionArn
    • lambda-006iam:PassRole + lambda:CreateFunction + lambda:AddPermissionscoped
      • iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/DeadlineResourceTrackerAccess*
      • lambda:CreateFunction: on arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:DeadlineResourceTracker*
      • lambda:AddPermission: condition lambda:Principal, on arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:DeadlineResourceTracker*

    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 3 documented escalation paths, but only on named resources or under a condition. Review that scope before trusting it.

    • cloudformation-002cloudformation:UpdateStackscoped
      • cloudformation:UpdateStack: on arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/DeadlineResourceTracker*
    • lambda-003lambda:UpdateFunctionCodescoped
      • lambda:UpdateFunctionCode: on arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:DeadlineResourceTracker*
    • lambda-005lambda:UpdateFunctionCode + lambda:AddPermissionscoped
      • lambda:UpdateFunctionCode: on arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:DeadlineResourceTracker*
      • lambda:AddPermission: condition lambda:Principal, on arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:DeadlineResourceTracker*

    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.

Policy Document

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{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker1",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "application-autoscaling:DeleteScalingPolicy",
            "application-autoscaling:DeregisterScalableTarget",
            "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalableTargets",
            "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies",
            "application-autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy",
            "application-autoscaling:RegisterScalableTarget"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker2",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudformation:ListStacks"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker3",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudformation:CreateStack",
            "cloudformation:DeleteStack",
            "cloudformation:UpdateStack",
            "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
            "cloudformation:UpdateTerminationProtection",
            "cloudformation:TagResource",
            "cloudformation:UntagResource"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/DeadlineResourceTracker*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker4",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "dynamodb:CreateTable",
            "dynamodb:DeleteTable",
            "dynamodb:DescribeTable",
            "dynamodb:ListTagsOfResource",
            "dynamodb:TagResource",
            "dynamodb:UntagResource"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:dynamodb:*:*:table/DeadlineEC2ComputeNodeHealth*",
            "arn:aws:dynamodb:*:*:table/DeadlineEC2ComputeNodeInfo*",
            "arn:aws:dynamodb:*:*:table/DeadlineFleetHealth*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker5",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "dynamodb:BatchWriteItem",
            "dynamodb:Scan"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:dynamodb:*:*:table/DeadlineFleetHealth*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker6",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "events:DeleteRule",
            "events:DescribeRule",
            "events:PutRule",
            "events:PutTargets",
            "events:RemoveTargets"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:events:*:*:rule/DeadlineResourceTracker*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker7",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:GetRole",
            "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:iam::*:role/DeadlineResourceTracker*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker8",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:GetUser"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker9",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/*"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:AWSServiceName": [
                "dynamodb.application-autoscaling.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker10",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:PassRole"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:iam::*:role/DeadlineResourceTrackerAccess*"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:PassedToService": [
                "lambda.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker11",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:PassRole"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/dynamodb.application-autoscaling.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForApplicationAutoScaling_DynamoDBTable"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:PassedToService": [
                "application-autoscaling.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker12",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "lambda:GetEventSourceMapping"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker13",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "lambda:CreateEventSourceMapping",
            "lambda:DeleteEventSourceMapping"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "ArnLike": {
              "lambda:FunctionArn": [
                "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:DeadlineResourceTracker*"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker14",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "lambda:AddPermission",
            "lambda:RemovePermission"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:DeadlineResourceTracker*"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "lambda:Principal": "events.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker15",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "lambda:CreateFunction",
            "lambda:DeleteFunction",
            "lambda:DeleteFunctionConcurrency",
            "lambda:GetFunction",
            "lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration",
            "lambda:ListTags",
            "lambda:PutFunctionConcurrency",
            "lambda:TagResource",
            "lambda:UntagResource",
            "lambda:UpdateFunctionCode",
            "lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:DeadlineResourceTracker*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker16",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "s3:GetObject"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:s3:::*/deadline_aws_resource_tracker*.zip",
            "arn:aws:s3:::*/DeadlineAWSResourceTrackerTemplate*.yaml"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AWSThinkboxDeadlineResourceTracker17",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "sqs:CreateQueue",
            "sqs:DeleteQueue",
            "sqs:GetQueueAttributes",
            "sqs:ListQueueTags",
            "sqs:TagQueue",
            "sqs:UntagQueue"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:sqs:*:*:DeadlineAWSComputeNodeState*",
            "arn:aws:sqs:*:*:DeadlineResourceTracker*"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v9",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-07-16T17:42:11+00:00"
  }
}

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