SecretsManagerReadWrite

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Aug 26, 2026

August 26, 2026 at 12:03 AM UTC

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Aug 25, 2026

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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 launch resources that run as a more privileged role
Grants every action of 1 documented escalation path on any resource with no condition.
- cloudformation-005cloudformation:CreateChangeSet + cloudformation:ExecuteChangeSetunrestricted
Use with caution: Make sure no highly privileged role trusts the service involved, and restrict iam:PassRole in your own policies or boundary to named roles with iam:PassedToService.
High
Can read secrets
Reads Secrets Manager secret values; Secrets Manager secret values in bulk, on any resource with no condition.
secretsmanager:GetSecretValue (via secretsmanager:*)secretsmanager:BatchGetSecretValue (via secretsmanager:*)
Use with caution: Where the holder needs only some secrets, write your own policy scoped to their ARNs or tags, and limit decryption in the KMS key policies.
Medium
Can rewrite resource policies and sharing
Grants 2 permissions management actions across 1 service (secretsmanager) on any resource, enough to share resources outside the account.
secretsmanager:deleteresourcepolicysecretsmanager:putresourcepolicy
Use with caution: Turn on IAM Access Analyzer external access findings, and keep account-level guards like S3 Block Public Access enabled.
Medium
Full secretsmanager access on every resource
Uses secretsmanager:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to that service later is granted too.
secretsmanager:*
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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89{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "BasePermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "secretsmanager:*",
            "cloudformation:CreateChangeSet",
            "cloudformation:DescribeChangeSet",
            "cloudformation:DescribeStackResource",
            "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
            "cloudformation:ExecuteChangeSet",
            "docdb-elastic:GetCluster",
            "docdb-elastic:ListClusters",
            "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
            "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
            "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
            "kms:DescribeKey",
            "kms:ListAliases",
            "kms:ListKeys",
            "lambda:ListFunctions",
            "rds:DescribeDBClusters",
            "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
            "redshift:DescribeClusters",
            "redshift-serverless:ListWorkgroups",
            "redshift-serverless:GetNamespace",
            "tag:GetResources"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "LambdaPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "lambda:AddPermission",
            "lambda:CreateFunction",
            "lambda:GetFunction",
            "lambda:InvokeFunction",
            "lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:SecretsManager*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "SARPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "serverlessrepo:CreateCloudFormationChangeSet",
            "serverlessrepo:GetApplication"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:serverlessrepo:*:*:applications/SecretsManager*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "S3Permissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "s3:GetObject"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:s3:::awsserverlessrepo-changesets*",
            "arn:aws:s3:::secrets-manager-rotation-apps-*/*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudFormationTagOnCreate",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudformation:TagResource",
            "cloudformation:UntagResource"
          ],
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "cloudformation:CreateAction": [
                "CreateChangeSet",
                "ExecuteChangeSet"
              ]
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v6",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-08-25T23:37:10+00:00"
  }
}

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