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Zero Permissions on Secrets Manager. Full Access to Your Secrets.
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A 2025 CloudGoat walkthrough by VirajMathpati documents a privilege escalation that no permission-based scanner catches. The principal with a synthetic IAM user named cg-sns-user-cgidxi93qpes3g has zero permissions on Secrets Manager. Run their identity through IAM Access Analyzer; it confirms no access. Run it through PMapper; same answer. Run it through any policy-based review; the IAM user cannot read any secret in the...
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