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AWSCloudTrail - Policy version set to default

Description

Detects SetDefaultPolicyVersion activity that makes a different IAM policy version active. Attackers can use this to activate previously created permissive versions and escalate access.

Rule type: Scheduled
Version: 1.0.2
Declared status: Available
Query frequency: 1h
Query period: 1h
Trigger: gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

PrivilegeEscalation T1098.003

Declared sources

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

Connectors

AWS

Data types

AWSCloudTrail

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

AWSCloudTrail
| where EventName == "SetDefaultPolicyVersion" and isempty(ErrorCode) and isempty(ErrorMessage)
| 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

Source provenance

GitHub

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

File: Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Analytic Rules/AWS_SetDefaulyPolicyVersion.yaml ↗
Commit: 9800e51 ↗
Source identifier: 874a1762-3fd7-4489-b411-6d4a9e9e8a59

Additional source files 2

Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Analytic Rules/AWS_SetDefaulyPolicyVersion.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Data/Solution_AmazonWebServices.jsonsolution-membership ↗

GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING

Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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