AwsGlueSessionUserRestrictedPolicy

Last Modified

Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:28 PM UTC

Version

v3

Total Versions

2

Created

Aug 5, 2024

Actions

16

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

    • glue-007iam:PassRole + glue:CreateSession + glue:RunStatementscoped
      • iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService, on arn:aws:iam::*:role/service-role/AwsGlueSessionServiceRoleUserRestricted*
      • glue:CreateSession: condition aws:RequestTag/owner, aws:TagKeys, on arn:aws:glue:*:*:session/*
      • glue:RunStatement: condition aws:ResourceTag/owner, on arn:aws:glue:*:*:session/*

    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": "AllowSessionActions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "glue:CreateSession"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:glue:*:*:session/*"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "aws:RequestTag/owner": "${aws:userid}"
            },
            "ForAnyValue:StringEquals": {
              "aws:TagKeys": [
                "owner"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowGlueTaggingAction",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "glue:TagResource"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:glue:*:*:session/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "aws:ResourceTag/owner": "${aws:userid}",
              "aws:RequestTag/owner": "${aws:userid}"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowCompletionActions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "glue:StartCompletion",
            "glue:GetCompletion"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:glue:*:*:completion/*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowGlueActions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "glue:RunStatement",
            "glue:GetStatement",
            "glue:ListStatements",
            "glue:CancelStatement",
            "glue:StopSession",
            "glue:DeleteSession",
            "glue:GetSession"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:glue:*:*:session/*"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "aws:ResourceTag/owner": "${aws:userid}"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowListSessions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "glue:ListSessions"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "DenyTagActions",
          "Effect": "Deny",
          "Action": [
            "glue:UntagResource",
            "tag:TagResources",
            "tag:UntagResources"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:glue:*:*:session/*"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "ForAnyValue:StringEquals": {
              "aws:TagKeys": [
                "owner"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowPassRoleActions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:PassRole"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:iam::*:role/service-role/AwsGlueSessionServiceRoleUserRestricted*"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "iam:PassedToService": [
                "glue.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v3",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2024-08-05T23:06:45+00:00"
  }
}

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