iam-policy-no-statements-with-admin-access
Checks if Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies that you create have Allow statements that grant permissions to all actions on all resources. The rule is NON_COMPLIANT if any customer managed IAM policy statement includes "Effect": "Allow" with "Action": "*" over "Resource": "*".
Note
This rule only evaluates customer managed policies. This rule does NOT evaluate inline policies or Amazon managed policies. For more information on the difference, see Managed policies and inline policies in the IAM User Guide.
The following policy is NON_COMPLIANT:
"Statement": [ { "Sid": "VisualEditor", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "*", "Resource": "*" }
The following policy is COMPLIANT:
"Statement": [ { "Sid": "VisualEditor", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "service:*", "Resource": "*" }
Identifier: IAM_POLICY_NO_STATEMENTS_WITH_ADMIN_ACCESS
Resource Types: AWS::IAM::Policy
Trigger type: Configuration changes
Amazon Web Services Region: All supported Amazon regions except US ISO West, Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) Region
Parameters:
- excludePermissionBoundaryPolicy (Optional)
- Type: boolean
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Boolean flag to exclude the evaluation of IAM policies used as permissions boundaries. If set to 'true', the rule will not include permissions boundaries in the evaluation. Otherwise, all IAM policies in scope are evaluated when value is set to 'false.' Default value is 'false'.
Amazon CloudFormation template
To create Amazon Config managed rules with Amazon CloudFormation templates, see Creating Amazon Config Managed Rules With Amazon CloudFormation Templates.