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aws-iam-privilege-escalation
AWS IAM privilege escalation — CreatePolicyVersion, AttachUserPolicy, PutRolePolicy, PassRole with Lambda/EC2/Glue/SageMaker/CloudFormation/SSM, role assumption, trust-policy and resource-policy abuse, resolving boundaries/SCPs before proving the formerly denied action
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# AWS IAM Privilege Escalation
## Purpose
Prove privilege escalation in AWS: from the current principal's permissions to a higher-privilege identity, resolving permission boundaries, SCPs, and conditions before claiming the path — then demonstrating the formerly denied action.
## Entry Conditions
- Valid low-privilege AWS credentials with an enumerated permission map (`aws-cloud-pentesting` step 1)
- Runtime authorization for state-changing operations (policy versions, role assumption, service execution) — this skill exercises them
## Attack Model
```text
baseline: denied action A
→ escalation primitive (policy modify / pass role / assume / service exec)