H3-2024-0017
AWS Privilege Escalation - iam:PutGroupPolicy
| Category | SECURITY_MISCONFIGURATION |
| Base Score | 9 |
Description
An AWS user or role assigned the iam:PutGroupPolicy permission, that is not an administrator, can assign an AWS user administrator permissions by assigning a group that user is a member of administrator permissions.
Impact
This misconfiguration permits an AWS user to escalate to administrator permissions.