AmazonInspectorFullAccess

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Dec 21, 2017

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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
Full inspector access on every resource
Uses inspector:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to that service later is granted too.
inspector:*
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.

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48{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "inspector:*",
            "ec2:DescribeInstances",
            "ec2:DescribeTags",
            "sns:ListTopics",
            "events:DescribeRule",
            "events:ListRuleNamesByTarget"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:PassRole"
          ],
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:PassedToService": [
                "inspector.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/inspector.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonInspector",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "iam:AWSServiceName": "inspector.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v5",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2017-12-21T14:53:31+00:00"
  }
}