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Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Property Value
Language hcl
Severity low
CWE CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Confidence Level Low
Impact Level Low
Likelihood Level Low

Description

The policy grants permissions to sensitive IAM or Glue actions that can enable privilege escalation, such as attaching policies or modifying roles, without explicit deny statements. This allows users or roles to gain more access than intended.

Impact

If exploited, an attacker could escalate their privileges to gain administrative access over your AWS account, potentially leading to full control over resources, data breaches, or disruption of services. Unauthorized changes to IAM or Glue settings can compromise the entire cloud environment.