Cross-service confused deputy prevention

The confused deputy problem is a security issue where an entity that doesn't have permission to perform an action can coerce a more-privileged entity to perform the action. In AWS, cross-service impersonation can result in the confused deputy problem. Cross-service impersonation can occur when one service (the calling service) calls another service (the called service). The calling service can be manipulated to use its permissions to act on another customer's resources in a way it should not otherwise have permission to access. To prevent this, AWS provides tools that help you protect your data for all services with service principals that have been given access to resources in your account.

We recommend using the aws:SourceArn of the flow and aws:SourceAccount global condition context keys in resource policies to limit the permissions that AWS Elemental MediaConnect gives another service to the resource. Use the flow's aws:SourceArn if you want only one resource to be associated with the cross-service access. Use aws:SourceAccount if you want to allow any resource in that account to be associated with the cross-service use.

The most effective way to protect against the confused deputy problem is to use the aws:SourceArn global condition context key with the full ARN of the flow. If you don't know the full ARN of the flow or if you are specifying multiple flows, use the aws:SourceArn global context condition key with wildcard characters (*) for the unknown portions of the ARN. For example, arn:aws:mediaconnect:*:111122223333:*.

The following example shows how you can use the aws:SourceArn and aws:SourceAccount global condition context keys in MediaConnect to prevent the confused deputy problem.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "Service": "mediaconnect.amazonaws.com"
            },
            "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "aws:SourceAccount": "111122223333"
                },
                "ArnLike": {
                    "aws:SourceArn": "arn:aws:mediaconnect:us-west-2:111122223333:flow:1-ABCDEFGHJxyzMNoP-a1234bc12345:flow-name"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}