📝 Google User has both Service Account Admin and Service Account User roles assigned 🟢

• Contextual name: 📝 User has both Service Account Admin and Service Account User roles assigned 🟢
• ID: /ce/ca/google/iam/service-account-related-roles-to-users
• Located in: 📁 Google IAM

Flags

• 🟢 Policy with categories
• 🟢 Policy with type
• 🟢 Production policy

Our Metadata

• Policy Type: COMPLIANCE_POLICY
• Policy Category:
  • SECURITY

Similar Policies

• Cloud Conformity
  • Enforce Separation of Duties for Service-Account Related Roles

Logic

• 🧠 prod.logic.yaml 🟢
  • 📕 Google User
  • 🔌 Google IAM Policy Binding - object.extracts.yaml
  • 🔌 Google IAM Role - object.extracts.yaml
  • 🧪 test-data.json

Description

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Description

It is recommended that the principle of 'Separation of Duties' is enforced while assigning service-account related roles to users.

Rationale

The built-in/predefined IAM role Service Account admin allows the user/identity to create, delete, and manage service account(s). The built-in/predefined IAM role Service Account User allows the user/identity (with adequate privileges on Compute and App Engine) to assign service account(s) to Apps/Compute Instances.

Separation of duties is the concept of ensuring that one individual does not have all necessary permissions to be able to complete a malicious action. In Cloud IAM - service accounts, this could be an action such as using a service account to access resources that user should not normally have access to.

Separation of duties is a business control typically used in larger organizations, meant to help avoid security or privacy incidents and errors. It is considered best practice.

No user should have Service Account Admin and Service Account User roles assigned at the same time.

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Remediation

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Remediation

From Google Cloud Console

1. Go to IAM & Admin/IAM using https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/iam.
2. For any member having both Service Account Admin and Service account User roles granted/assigned, click the Delete Bin icon to remove either role from the member. Removal of a role should be done based on the business requirements.

policy.yaml

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Linked Framework Sections

Section	Sub Sections	Internal Rules	Policies	Flags
💼 CIS GCP v3.0.0 → 💼 1.8 Ensure That Separation of Duties Is Enforced While Assigning Service Account Related Roles to Users - Level 2 (Automated)			1
💼 Cloudaware Framework → 💼 Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Management			9