What is aws-iam-enum?

A procedure for reviewing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), the system that controls permissions for AWS users and services. It checks policies for known combinations of permissions that may allow a user or service to gain more access.

Use it to inspect attached and inline policies, review groups and policy versions, and identify possible paths such as creating credentials, changing policies, or passing a role to another AWS service.

AWS policies can be lengthy and privilege-escalation paths may depend on several permissions used together. This procedure organizes those checks.

aws-iam-enum — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by MingyiSecLab

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas --skill aws-iam-enum

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 657 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00025	$0.00657
Opus 5	$0.00013	$0.00329
Sonnet 5	$0.00005	$0.00131
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00066

Measured 10d ago against content hash 935425581a45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-iam-enum scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to aws-iam-enum — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

src/skills/standard/cloud/aws-iam-enum/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS IAM Enumeration + Privesc

1. Identity check

aws sts get-caller-identity
aws iam get-account-summary

2. Attached policies

aws iam list-attached-user-policies --user-name ME --output json > /tmp/attached.json
aws iam list-user-policies          --user-name ME --output json > /tmp/inline.json
aws iam list-groups-for-user        --user-name ME --output json > /tmp/groups.json

For each attached policy ARN:

aws iam get-policy --policy-arn ARN --query 'Policy.DefaultVersionId'
aws iam get-policy-version --policy-arn ARN --version-id VID > /tmp/policy.json

Then:

iam_policy_audit(open("/tmp/policy.json").read())

3. Check each privesc primitive

Rhino Security's canonical 21 paths — any Allow on these is a chain step:

iam:CreateAccessKey (other user)
iam:CreateLoginProfile
iam:UpdateLoginProfile
iam:AttachUserPolicy / iam:AttachGroupPolicy / iam:AttachRolePolicy
iam:PutUserPolicy / iam:PutGroupPolicy / iam:PutRolePolicy
iam:CreatePolicyVersion (if SetAsDefault=true)
iam:SetDefaultPolicyVersion
iam:PassRole + lambda:CreateFunction + lambda:InvokeFunction
iam:PassRole + ec2:RunInstances
iam:PassRole + ecs:RunTask / UpdateService
glue:CreateDevEndpoint / UpdateDevEndpoint
cloudformation:CreateStack with iam:PassRole
datapipeline:CreatePipeline
lambda:UpdateFunctionCode (existing function with priv role)
iam:AddUserToGroup
iam:UpdateAssumeRolePolicy
iam:CreateRole + sts:AssumeRole
codebuild:CreateProject with iam:PassRole
sagemaker:CreateTrainingJob with iam:PassRole
aws-marketplace:Subscribe (rare, but noted)
sts:AssumeRole (direct)

4. Graph promotion

kg_add_node(kind="vulnerability", label="IAM:CreateAccessKey → account takeover", props={"severity":"critical","source":"aws-iam"})
kg_add_node(kind="crown_jewel", label="AWS Account 1234")
kg_add_edge(src=<vuln>, dst=<crown_jewel>, kind="grants", weight=0.3)

5. Common chains

Dev user has iam:PassRole + lambda:CreateFunction + a Lambda role with admin → create malicious Lambda → assume admin
iam:UpdateLoginProfile + sts:GetFederationToken → temporary console access as another user

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

10d ago First seen · 66 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 935425581a45

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aws-iam-enum is a skill published in the GitHub repository MingyiSecLab/Mingyi-Atlas (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 657 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to aws-iam-enum, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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aws-iam-enum

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

This is a copy

How it starts

AWS IAM Enumeration + Privesc

1. Identity check

2. Attached policies

3. Check each privesc primitive

4. Graph promotion

5. Common chains

What this file has done since we first saw it

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