IAM Role With Full Privileges

• Query id: b1ffa705-19a3-4b73-b9d0-0c97d0663842
• Query name: IAM Role With Full Privileges
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: High
• Category: Access Control
• URL: Github

Description

IAM role policy that allow full administrative privileges (for all resources)
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_iam_role" "positive1" {
  name = "test_role"

  assume_role_policy = <<EOF
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Action": ["*"],
      "Principal": {
        "Service": "ec2.amazonaws.com"
      },
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Sid": ""
    }
  ]
}
EOF

  tags = {
    tag-key = "tag-value"
  }
}

resource "aws_iam_role" "positive2" {
  name = "test_role2"

  assume_role_policy = <<EOF
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Action": "*",
      "Principal": {
        "Service": "ec2.amazonaws.com"
      },
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Sid": ""
    }
  ]
}
EOF

  tags = {
    tag-key = "tag-value"
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_iam_role" "negative1" {
  name = "test_role"

  assume_role_policy = <<EOF
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Action": ["some:action"],
      "Principal": {
        "Service": "ec2.amazonaws.com"
      },
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Sid": ""
    }
  ]
}
EOF

  tags = {
    tag-key = "tag-value"
  }
}