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AWS permissions and trusts

Below is a list of examples illustrating various ways in which you can effectively query you AWS-related data relating to both permissions and trusts.

note

If you have over 10,000 AWS resources in multiple AWS accounts, some query execution may take a long time or occasionally time out. Try limiting the query by adding and tag.AccountName='account-name' as part of the WITH entity property filter. Or use LIMIT 100 at the end of the query for a smaller sample set of the results.

IAM Policy Permissions​

Which policies allow access to production data?​

find AccessPolicy as policy
  that allows as permission
    (aws_s3|aws_dynamodb|aws_rds|DataStore) with tag.Production=true as resource
return
  policy._type, policy.name,
  resource._type, resource.name, resource.tag.AccountName,
  permission.actions, permission.resources

Who has admin access to production resources?​

find (aws_iam_group|aws_iam_user|aws_iam_role) as principal
  that assigned AccessPolicy as policy
  that allows as permission
    * with tag.Production=true as resource
where permission.admin=true
  return
    principal._type, principal.name, principal.tag.AccountName,
    policy._type, policy.name,
    permission.actions, permission.resources,
    resource._type, resource.name, resource.tag.AccountName

IAM Assume Role Trusts​

What are the cross-account trusts?​

Find aws_iam_role as a
  that trusts (aws_account|aws_iam_role) as b
where a.tag.AccountName!=b.tag.AccountName
  return tree

Are there assume role trusts to external entities?​

Find aws_account as aws
  that HAS aws_iam
  that HAS aws_iam_role as role
  that TRUSTS (aws_iam_role|aws_iam_user|aws_iam_group|aws_account)
    with _source='system-mapper' as ext
  return
    aws.name, aws.accountId,
    role.roleName,
    ext.displayName, ext._type

IAM Roles and Policies assigned to Okta SSO Users​

Find okta_user as user
  that assigned aws_iam_role as role
  that assigned aws_iam_policy as policy
return
  role.name, policy.name, count(user) as userCount
order by userCount desc

What IAM roles can active public facing EC2 instances assume?​

find Internet
  that allows aws_security_group
  that protects aws_instance with active=true
  that uses aws_iam_role
  that assigned AccessPolicy
  return tree
OR​
find (Network|Host) with _source='system-mapper'
  that allows aws_security_group
  that protects aws_instance with active=true
  that uses aws_iam_role
  that assigned AccessPolicy
  return tree
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As seen above, the (Network|Host) with _source='system-mapper' portion of the query looks for Network or Host entities created by the system-mapper —- meaning those are networks and hosts “external” to your environment, not ingested by the integration.

S3 Bucket permissions​

Are there non-public S3 buckets configured with public access to everyone?​

Find aws_s3_bucket
  with classification!='public' or classification=undefined
  that ALLOWS everyone

What are the cross account access to non-public S3 buckets?​

Find aws_s3_bucket with classification != 'public' as a
  that allows * as b
where a.tag.AccountName != b.tag.AccountName
  return tree

Who can read non-public S3 buckets in production?​

Find (User|UserGroup|AccessRole)
  that assigned AccessPolicy
  that allows as permission
    (aws_s3|aws_s3_bucket) with
      classification!='public' and tag.Production=true
where permission.read=true
  return tree

Which EC2 instances can read data from S3 via an IAM role?​

find aws_instance
  that uses aws_iam_role
  that assigned AccessPolicy
  that allows as permission (aws_s3|aws_s3_bucket)
where permission.read=true
  return tree

Other​

What are the Inline Policies in use?​

Find (aws_iam_user|aws_iam_group|aws_iam_role) as u
  that (has|assigned)
    (aws_iam_user_policy|aws_iam_group_policy|aws_iam_role_policy) as p
return
  u.tag.AccountName, u._type, u.name, p.name
order by u.tag.AccountName

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