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Expand Up @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Or you could also go to the API AWS documentation and check each action docs:
An attacker with the **`states:TestState`** & **`iam:PassRole`** permissions can test any state and pass any IAM role to it without creating or updating an existing state machine, potentially enabling unauthorized access to other AWS services with the roles' permissions. Combined, these permissions can lead to extensive unauthorized actions, from manipulating workflows to alter data to data breaches, resource manipulation, and privilege escalation.

```bash
aws states test-state --definition <value> --role-arn <value> [--input <value>] [--inspection-level <value>] [--reveal-secrets | --no-reveal-secrets]
aws stepfunctions test-state --definition <value> --role-arn <value> [--input <value>] [--inspection-level <value>] [--reveal-secrets | --no-reveal-secrets]
```

The following examples show how to test an state that creates an access key for the **`admin`** user leveraging these permissions and a permissive role of the AWS environment. This permissive role should have any high-privileged policy associated with it (for example **`arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess`**) that allows the state to perform the **`iam:CreateAccessKey`** action:
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```bash
# Create a state machine
aws states create-state-machine --name <value> --definition <value> --role-arn <value> [--type <STANDARD | EXPRESS>] [--logging-configuration <value>]\
aws stepfunctions create-state-machine --name <value> --definition <value> --role-arn <value> [--type <STANDARD | EXPRESS>] [--logging-configuration <value>]\
[--tracing-configuration <enabled=true|false>] [--publish | --no-publish] [--version-description <value>]

# Start a state machine execution
aws states start-execution --state-machine-arn <value> [--name <value>] [--input <value>] [--trace-header <value>]
aws stepfunctions start-execution --state-machine-arn <value> [--name <value>] [--input <value>] [--trace-header <value>]

# Start a Synchronous Express state machine execution
aws states start-sync-execution --state-machine-arn <value> [--name <value>] [--input <value>] [--trace-header <value>]
aws stepfunctions start-sync-execution --state-machine-arn <value> [--name <value>] [--input <value>] [--trace-header <value>]
```

The following examples show how to create an state machine that creates an access key for the **`admin`** user and exfiltrates this access key to an attacker-controlled S3 bucket, leveraging these permissions and a permissive role of the AWS environment. This permissive role should have any high-privileged policy associated with it (for example **`arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess`**) that allows the state machine to perform the **`iam:CreateAccessKey`** & **`s3:putObject`** actions.
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2. **Not permissive IAM Role**: In contrast with the previous case, here an attacker would also require the **`iam:PassRole`** permission since it would be necessary to associate a permissive IAM Role to the state machine in addition to modify the state machine definition.

```bash
aws states update-state-machine --state-machine-arn <value> [--definition <value>] [--role-arn <value>] [--logging-configuration <value>] \
aws stepfunctions update-state-machine --state-machine-arn <value> [--definition <value>] [--role-arn <value>] [--logging-configuration <value>] \
[--tracing-configuration <enabled=true|false>] [--publish | --no-publish] [--version-description <value>]
```

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