AWSCloudTrail - Privilege escalation via Glue policy
Detects inline IAM policy updates that grant broad AWS Glue permissions or Glue actions paired with IAM privileges such as iam:PassRole. This pattern can enable elevated execution paths and indicates potential…
Description
Detects inline IAM policy updates that grant broad AWS Glue permissions or Glue actions paired with IAM privileges such as iam:PassRole. This pattern can enable elevated execution paths and indicates potential privilege escalation through expanded cloud role capabilities.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- IaaSIdentity ProviderOffice SuiteSaaS
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source product
- aws
- Log source service
- awscloudtrail
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
- 370f0e5e-da1d-4a14-8ced-d1d7ab66a8d7
- Tagged by the source as
- PrivilegeEscalation
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 29, 2026
- Version
- 1