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Id: 12a7a7ce-39d6-49dd-923d-aeb4564eb66c

Cloud Provider: AWS

Platform: Ansible

Severity: Medium

Category: Access Control

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Description

Policy statements that use a wildcard principal (*) with Effect set to Allow grant trust or permissions to any AWS principal. This can enable unauthorized accounts or external services to assume roles or perform actions, increasing the risk of privilege escalation and data exposure.

In Ansible resources amazon.aws.iam_managed_policy and iam_managed_policy, check the policy.Statement[].Effect and policy.Statement[].Principal.AWS properties. Statements must not have an Allow effect combined with Principal.AWS equal to or containing "*". This rule flags managed policy resources where any statement authorizes "*" as a principal. Replace wildcards with explicit principals such as AWS account IDs, ARNs, or specific service principals to limit trust to known entities.

Compliant Code Examples

- name: Create IAM Managed Policy
  amazon.aws.iam_managed_policy:
    policy_name: ManagedPolicy
    policy:
      Version: '2012-10-17'
      Statement:
      - Effect: Allow
        Action: logs:CreateLogGroup
        Resource: '*'
    make_default: false
    state: present

Non-Compliant Code Examples

- name: Create IAM Managed Policy
  amazon.aws.iam_managed_policy:
    policy_name: "ManagedPolicy"
    policy:
      Version: "2012-10-17"
      Statement:
      - Effect: "Allow"
        Action: "logs:CreateLogGroup"
        Resource: "*"
        Principal:
          Service: "ec2.amazonaws.com"
          AWS: "*"
    make_default: false
    state: present