performing-aws-privilege-escalation-assessment

To find AWS IAM privilege escalation paths, you can use this assessment to map users, roles, and policies using Pacu, CloudFox, and Principal Mapper, highlighting dangerous permission combinations and risky trust relationships.

The best way to assess cross-account IAM trust policies is by performing resource-based policy assessment to identify potential privilege escalation vectors across accounts and services within your authorized AWS environment.

Yes, you can use Pacu and CloudFox together for AWS security assessments. This approach combines Pacu's exploitation framework with CloudFox's enumeration to provide comprehensive visibility into IAM misconfigurations.

Yes, you need explicit authorization to run an AWS privilege escalation assessment. The process operates within authorized penetration testing scenarios to safely discover and help remediate risky IAM configurations.

The AWS IAM and STS APIs are used alongside boto3 and botocore to identify IAM misconfigurations and escalation vectors, mapping trust relationships and analyzing permissions across your environment.