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Database

Aws Permissive Policy

Description

Identifies AWS IAM policies that grant overly permissive access through wildcard permissions and unrestricted resource scopes. These policies are dangerous because they could allow unauthorized access to sensitive AWS resources, violating the principle of least privilege.

Weakness:

325 - Excessive privileges - Wildcards

Category: Access Subversion

Detection Strategy

    Scans all IAM policies in the AWS account

    Flags a policy as vulnerable if it contains statements that have ALL of these conditions: - Effect is set to 'Allow' - Action contains wildcards like '*' - Resource is set to '*' (all resources)

    Reports each policy statement that combines unrestricted actions with unrestricted resources, capturing both the overly permissive actions and resource specifications