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Imported from mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills (skills/detecting-aws-iam-privilege-escalation/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills --skill detecting-aws-iam-privilege-escalation. Copyright stays with the author (Apache-2.0).

Detecting AWS IAM Privilege Escalation

Name: detecting-aws-iam-privilege-escalation
Author: mukul975

Overview

This skill uses boto3 and Cloudsplaining-style analysis to identify IAM privilege escalation paths in AWS accounts. It downloads the account authorization details, analyzes each policy for dangerous permission combinations (iam:PassRole + lambda:CreateFunction, iam:CreatePolicyVersion, sts:AssumeRole), and flags policies that violate least-privilege principles.

When to Use

When investigating security incidents that require detecting aws iam privilege escalation
When building detection rules or threat hunting queries for this domain
When SOC analysts need structured procedures for this analysis type
When validating security monitoring coverage for related attack techniques

Prerequisites

Python 3.8+ with boto3 library
AWS credentials with IAM read-only access (iam:GetAccountAuthorizationDetails)
Optional: cloudsplaining Python package for HTML report generation

Steps

Download IAM Authorization Details — Call iam:GetAccountAuthorizationDetails to retrieve all users, groups, roles, and policies
Analyze Policies for Privilege Escalation — Check each policy for known escalation permission combinations
Identify Wildcard Resource Policies — Flag policies using Resource: "*" with dangerous actions
Map Principal-to-Policy Relationships — Build a graph of which principals can access which escalation paths
Score and Prioritize Findings — Rank findings by severity based on escalation vector type
Generate Report — Produce structured JSON report with remediation guidance

Expected Output

JSON report of privilege escalation findings with severity scores
List of dangerous permission combinations per principal
Wildcard resource policy audit results
Remediation recommendations for each finding

Use it

Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

yaml

targets:
  - https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/registry/mukul975-anthropic-cybersecurity-skills-detecting-aws-ia-63b18e/manifest   # or paste the manifest below

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

mukul975-anthropic-cybersecurity-skills-detecting-aws-ia-63b18e.ocm.jsonjson

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  "name": "detecting-aws-iam-privilege-escalation",
  "description": "Detect AWS IAM privilege escalation paths using boto3 and Cloudsplaining policy analysis to identify overly permissive policies, dangerous permission combinations, and least-privilege violations",
  "publisher": "mukul975",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
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    "tags": [
      "skill-md",
      "aws",
      "iam",
      "privilege-escalation",
      "cloudsplaining",
      "boto3",
      "policy-analysis",
      "least-privilege",
      "skills-sh"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "en"
    ]
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  "examples": [
    "Detect AWS IAM privilege escalation paths using boto3 and Cloudsplaining policy analysis to identify overly permissive policies, dangerous permission combinations, and least-privilege violations"
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  "primary": false,
  "metadata": {
    "source": {
      "provider": "skills.sh",
      "repository": "https://github.com/mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills",
      "path": "skills/detecting-aws-iam-privilege-escalation/SKILL.md",
      "ref": "HEAD",
      "url": "https://github.com/mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/detecting-aws-iam-privilege-escalation/SKILL.md",
      "key": "mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/skills/detecting-aws-iam-privilege-escalation/SKILL.md"
    },
    "license": "Apache-2.0"
  },
  "instructions": "# Detecting AWS IAM Privilege Escalation\n\n## Overview\n\nThis skill uses boto3 and Cloudsplaining-style analysis to identify IAM privilege escalation paths in AWS accounts. It downloads the account authorization details, analyzes each policy for dangerous permission combinations (iam:PassRole + lambda:CreateFunction, iam:CreatePolicyVersion, sts:AssumeRole), and flags policies that violate least-privilege principles.\n\n\n## When to Use\n\n- When investigating security incidents that require detecting aws iam privilege escalation\n- When building detection rules or threat hunting queries for this doma",
  "cost": {
    "context_tokens": 460
  }
}

Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/mukul975-anthropic-cybersecurity-skills-detecting-aws-ia-63b18e/manifest?version=1.0.0

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