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AWSCloudTrail - Suspicious overly permissive KMS key policy created

Description

Detects creation or update of KMS key policies that grant broad encryption permissions to all principals. Overly permissive key policies can be abused for malicious encryption operations and indicate potential account compromise or risky misconfiguration.
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.5
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
1d
Query period
1d
Trigger
gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

Connectors

Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

let kmsActions = dynamic(["kms:Encrypt", "kms:*"]); //Add other overly permissive APIs to this list.
AWSCloudTrail
| where EventName in ("CreateKey","PutKeyPolicy") and isempty(ErrorCode) and isempty(ErrorMessage)
| extend Statement = parse_json(tostring((parse_json(RequestParameters).policy))).Statement
| mvexpand Statement
| extend Action = tostring(parse_json(Statement).Action), Effect = tostring(parse_json(Statement).Effect), Principal = iff(isnotempty(tostring(parse_json(Statement).Principal.AWS)),tostring(parse_json(Statement).Principal.AWS), tostring(parse_json(Statement).Principal))
| where Effect =~ "Allow" and Action has_any (kmsActions) and Principal == "*" 
| extend UserIdentityArn = iif(isempty(UserIdentityArn), tostring(parse_json(Resources)[0].ARN), UserIdentityArn)
| extend UserName = tostring(split(UserIdentityArn, '/')[-1])
| extend AccountName = case( UserIdentityPrincipalid == "Anonymous", "Anonymous", isempty(UserIdentityUserName), UserName, UserIdentityUserName)
| extend AccountName = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 0)[0]), AccountName),
  AccountUPNSuffix = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 1)[0]), "")

Declared entities

AccountIP

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

Displayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.

Source identifier
60dfc193-0f73-4279-b43c-110ade02b201
Additional source files 2Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Analytic Rules/AWS_OverlyPermessiveKMS.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Data/Solution_AmazonWebServices.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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