This article highlights the risks of privilege escalation in AWS environments through misconfigured IAM roles and trust policies. It provides a detailed guide on setting up vulnerable IAM configurations, executing enumeration, and exploiting role assumption for privilege escalation. #IAMRole #PrivilegeEscalation
Keypoints
- AWS IAM allows controlled access to cloud resources and includes roles, policies, and principals.
- Role assumption uses temporary credentials and requires proper trust policies to prevent misuse.
- The setup demonstrates how a low-privileged user can escalate privileges by assuming a high-level role.
- Enumeration tools like enumerate-iam and AWS CLI can reveal roles, policies, and access permissions.
- Mitigation involves restricting role assumptions and implementing conditions in trust policies to enhance security.
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