AWS Least Privilege Role: Missing AWS Cloudformation Permission
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Description
After using the AWS IAM least privilege role permissions set provided on the docs for v0.40 (https://docs.driftctl.com/0.40.0/providers/aws/authentication/), I got the following warning output from the CLI tool:
An error occured listing aws_cloudformation_stack: listing aws_cloudformation_stack is forbidden: AccessDenied: User: arn:aws:iam::12345678910:user/driftctl is not authorized to perform: cloudformation:ListStacks on resource: arn:aws:cloudformation:eu-west-2:12345678910:stack// because no identity-based policy allows the cloudformation:ListStacks action
It seems that we got access denied exceptions while listing resources.
The latest minimal read-only IAM policy for driftctl is always available here, please update yours: https://docs.driftctl.com/aws/policy
Is this a missing permission in the documentation?
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Research direction
Start with the AWS authentication documentation for v0.40 and compare its least-privilege policy with the current policy at https://docs.driftctl.com/aws/policy. Confirm how the cloudformation:ListStacks denial relates to the documented permissions; done means the documentation reflects the required read-only permission and the reported warning is addressed.
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- Tech stack
- aws
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- cloud, documentation
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- Documentation
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