AWS Security Hub - IAM users with console password and no MFA
This query identifies IAM users in AWS Security Hub findings (control IAM.5) who have a console password but do not have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- ContainersESXiIaaSIdentity ProviderLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteSaaSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 3 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
- Log source product
- awssecurityhub
- Log source service
- awssecurityhubfindings
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- d5818873-a2ab-4467-8e97-60fe56ca10cc
- Tagged by the source as
- CredentialAccessDefenseEvasionPrivilegeEscalation
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 29, 2026
- Version
- 1