📝 AWS IAM AWSCloudShellFullAccess Policy is attached 🟢
- Contextual name: 📝 AWSCloudShellFullAccess Policy is attached 🟢
- ID:
/ce/ca/aws/iam/detach-aws-cloudshell-full-access-policy - Located in: 📁 AWS IAM
Flags
Our Metadata
- Policy Type:
COMPLIANCE_POLICY - Policy Category:
SECURITY
Logic
Description
Description
AWS CloudShell is a convenient way of running CLI commands against AWS services. AWSCloudShellFullAccess managed IAM policy provides full access to CloudShell, which allows file upload and download capability between a user's local system and the CloudShell environment. Within the CloudShell environment a user has sudo permissions, and can access the internet. So it is feasible to install file transfer software (for example) and move data from CloudShell to external internet servers.
Rationale
Access to this policy should be restricted as it presents a potential channel for data exfiltration by malicious cloud admins that are given full permissions to the service. AWS documentation describes how to create a more restrictive IAM policy which denies file transfer permissions.
Audit
From Console
- Open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.
- In the left pane, select
Policies.- Search for and select
AWSCloudShellFullAccess.- On the
Entitiesattached tab, ensure that there are no entities using this policy.... see more
Remediation
Remediation
From Console
- Open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.
- In the left pane, select
Policies.- Search for and select
AWSCloudShellFullAccess.- On the
Entitiesattached tab, for each item, check the box and selectDetach.