Cross-service confused deputy prevention

The confused deputy problem is a security issue where an entity that doesn't have permission to perform an action can coerce a more-privileged entity to perform the action. In Amazon, cross-service impersonation can result in the confused deputy problem. Cross-service impersonation can occur when one service (the calling service) calls another service (the called service). The calling service can be manipulated to use its permissions to act on another customer's resources in a way it should not otherwise have permission to access. To prevent this, Amazon provides tools that help you protect your data for all services with service principals that have been given access to resources in your account.

We recommend using the aws:SourceArn and aws:SourceAccount global condition context keys in resource policies to limit the permissions that Amazon Personalize gives another service to the resource.

To prevent the confused deputy problem in roles assumed by Amazon Personalize, in the role's trust policy set the value of aws:SourceArn to arn:aws-cn:personalize:region:accountNumber:*. The wildcard (*) applies the condition for all Amazon Personalize resources.

The following trust relationship policy grants Amazon Personalize access to your resources and uses the aws:SourceArn and aws:SourceAccount global condition context keys to prevent the confused deputy problem. Use this policy when you create a role for Amazon Personalize (Creating an IAM role for Amazon Personalize).

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "Service": [
          "personalize.amazonaws.com"
        ]
      },
      "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:SourceAccount": "accountNumber"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:SourceArn": "arn:aws-cn:personalize:region:accountNumber:*"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}