IAM user, group or role has full administrator access
HIGHWhat's the problem
AdministratorAccess or a customer managed / inline policy allows Action "*" on Resource "*". Leaked credentials for this identity give away the whole account. Service-linked roles, IAM Identity Center roles and 6WAF's own roles are skipped
How 6WAF detects it
- Deterministic checks through AWS API calls (IAM, S3, EC2/VPC, CloudTrail, KMS) — no LLM is used for detection; severity is the value the scanner assigns, shown above.
- Scanning uses an IAM Role you deploy yourself via CloudFormation; 6WAF stores no credentials and you revoke access any time by deleting the stack.
- Automated scoring covers only part of the scope of standards such as ISO 27001 — this is a technical assessment, not a certification.
Pillar: Security — Fast Scan
Group: Identity & access (IAM)
Reference standard: AWS Security Hub IAM.1
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