AWSCloudTrail - Privilege escalation via EC2 policy

Detects inline IAM policy updates that grant broad EC2 permissions or EC2 actions paired with IAM pass-role capability. This policy pattern can enable launch and control of compute resources as a privilege escalation…

Description

Detects inline IAM policy updates that grant broad EC2 permissions or EC2 actions paired with IAM pass-role capability. This policy pattern can enable launch and control of compute resources as a privilege escalation path.

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Platform: IaaS Identity Provider Office Suite SaaS
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
Log source product: aws
Log source service: awscloudtrail

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AWSCloudTrail - Privilege escalation via EC2 policy

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MITRE ATT&CK mappings

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