Cross-service confused deputy prevention - Amazon CloudWatch
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Cross-service confused deputy prevention

A confused deputy is an entity (a service or an account) that is coerced by a different entity to perform an action. This type of impersonation can happen cross-account and cross-service.

To prevent confused deputies, Amazon provides tools that help you protect your data for all services using service principals that have been given access to resources in your Amazon Web Services account. This section focuses on cross-service confused deputy prevention specific to Internet Monitor; however, you can learn more about this topic in the confused deputy problem section of the IAM User Guide.

To limit the permissions that IAM gives to Internet Monitor to access your resources, we recommend using the global condition context keys aws:SourceArn and aws:SourceAccount in your resource policies.

If you use both of these global condition context keys, and the aws:SourceArn value contains the Amazon Web Services account ID, the aws:SourceAccount value and the Amazon Web Services account in aws:SourceArn must use the same Amazon Web Services account ID when used in the same policy statement.

For Internet Monitor, you specify your account ID for aws:SourceAccount and your monitor ARN for aws:SourceArn. For cross-service access, you also use your monitor ARN for aws:SourceArn.

Note

The most effective way to protect against the confused deputy problem is to use the aws:SourceArn global condition context key with the full ARN of the resource. If you don’t know the full ARN, or if you're specifying multiple resources, use the aws:SourceArn global context condition key with wildcards (*) for the unknown portions of the ARN. For example, arn:aws:internetmonitor:us-east-1:111122223333:*.

The following is an example of an assume role policy that shows how you can prevent a confused deputy issue. 

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": {
    "Sid": "ConfusedDeputyPreventionExamplePolicy",
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Principal": {
      "Service": "internetmonitor.amazonaws.com"
    },
    "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
    "Condition": {
      "ArnLike": {
        "aws:SourceArn": "arn:aws:internetmonitor:us-east-1:111122223333:monitor/confused-deputy-monitor"
      },
      "StringEquals": {
        "aws:SourceAccount": "111122223333"
      }
    }
  }
}