CloudFormation Stack Should Have An IAM Role
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The IAM service role associated with your Amazon CloudFormation stack should adhere to the principle of least privilege in order avoid unwanted privilege escalation.Risk Level
MediumAddress
SecurityCompliance Standards
CBPTriage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
To remediate this misconfiguration in AWS, you can follow the below steps:
- Log in to the AWS Management Console.
- Go to the CloudFormation service.
- Select the stack that needs remediation.
- Click on the “Update Stack” button.
- In the “Specify template” section, select the current template used by the stack.
- In the “Configure stack options” section, select “Permissions”.
- Under “Permissions”, select “Create a new IAM role”.
- Enter a name for the new IAM role.
- Select the appropriate policies for the IAM role.
- Click “Create”.
Using CLI
Using CLI
To remediate the misconfiguration of “CloudFormation Stack Should Have An IAM Role” in AWS using AWS CLI, you can follow these steps:Replace Replace Replace
- Create an IAM Role with the required permissions for the CloudFormation stack. You can use the following command to create an IAM Role:
<RoleName> with the name of the IAM Role you want to create and <PolicyDocument.json> with the path to the JSON file containing the trust policy for the role.- Attach the required policies to the IAM Role using the following command:
<RoleName> with the name of the IAM Role you created in step 1 and <PolicyARN> with the ARN of the policy you want to attach to the role.- Update the CloudFormation stack to use the IAM Role you created in step 1. You can use the following command to update the stack:
<StackName> with the name of the CloudFormation stack you want to update, <RoleARN> with the ARN of the IAM Role you created in step 1.After following these steps, the CloudFormation stack will have an IAM Role associated with it, thus remediating the misconfiguration.Using Python
Using Python
To remediate the misconfiguration of a CloudFormation stack not having an IAM role, you can follow these steps using Python:By following these steps, you should be able to remediate the misconfiguration of a CloudFormation stack not having an IAM role attached to it.
- Import the necessary AWS SDK modules
- Create a boto3 client for CloudFormation and IAM
- Get the ARN of the IAM role that needs to be added to the CloudFormation stack
- Get the current CloudFormation stack’s details using its stack name
- Check if the stack already has an IAM role attached to it
- If the stack does not have an IAM role attached, update the stack with the new IAM role ARN
- Wait for the stack to update and check if the IAM role has been attached successfully