Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

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 Systems Manager gives another service to the resource. If the aws:SourceArn value does not contain the account ID, such as an Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for an S3 bucket, you must use both global condition context keys to limit permissions. If you use both global condition context keys and the aws:SourceArn value contains the account ID, the aws:SourceAccount value and the account in the aws:SourceArn value must use the same account ID when used in the same policy statement. Use aws:SourceArn if you want only one resource to be associated with the cross-service access. Use aws:SourceAccount if you want to allow any resource in that account to be associated with the cross-service use.

The following sections provide example policies for Amazon Systems Manager capabilities.

Hybrid activation policy example

For service roles used in a hybrid activation, the value of aws:SourceArn must be the ARN of the Amazon Web Services account. Be sure to specify the Amazon Web Services Region in the ARN where you created your hybrid activation. If you don't know the full ARN of the resource 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-cn:ssm:*:region:123456789012:*.

The following example demonstrates using the aws:SourceArn and aws:SourceAccount global condition context keys for Automation to prevent the confused deputy problem in the Region (us-west-2).

{
   "Version":"2012-10-17",
   "Statement":[
      {
         "Sid":"",
         "Effect":"Allow",
         "Principal":{
            "Service":"ssm.amazonaws.com.cn"
         },
         "Action":"sts:AssumeRole",
         "Condition":{
            "StringEquals":{
               "aws:SourceAccount":"123456789012"
            },
            "ArnEquals":{
               "aws:SourceArn":"arn:aws-cn:ssm:us-west-2:123456789012:*"
            }
         }
      }
   ]
}

Resource data sync policy example

Systems Manager Inventory, Explorer, and Compliance enable you to create a resource data sync to centralize storage of your operations data (OpsData) in a central Amazon Simple Storage Service bucket. If you want to encrypt a resource data sync by using Amazon Key Management Service (Amazon KMS), then you must either create a new key that includes the following policy, or you must update an existing key and add this policy to it. The aws:SourceArn and aws:SourceAccount condition keys in this policy prevent the confused deputy problem. Here is an example policy.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Id": "ssm-access-policy",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "ssm-access-policy-statement",
            "Action": [
                "kms:GenerateDataKey"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "Service": "ssm.amazonaws.com.cn"
            },
            "Resource": "arn:aws-cn:kms:us-west-2:123456789012:key/KMS_key_id",
            "Condition": {
                "StringLike": {
                    "aws:SourceAccount": "123456789012"
                },
                "ArnLike": {
                    "aws:SourceArn": "arn:aws-cn:ssm:*:123456789012:role/aws-service-role/ssm.amazonaws.com.cn/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonSSM"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}