SES Policy With Allowed IAM Actions

• Query id: 34b921bd-90a0-402e-a0a5-dc73371fd963
• Query name: SES Policy With Allowed IAM Actions
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Access Control
• URL: Github

Description

SES policy should not allow IAM actions to all principals
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Postitive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_ses_identity_policy" "positive1" {
  identity = aws_ses_domain_identity.example.arn
  name     = "example"
  policy   = <<EOF
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Action": "*",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "*"
      },
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Sid": ""
    }
  ]
}
EOF
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_ses_identity_policy" "negative1" {
  identity = aws_ses_domain_identity.example.arn
  name     = "example"
  policy   = <<EOF
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Action": "*",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::987654321145:root"
      },
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Sid": ""
    }
  ]
}
EOF
}