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sec(iac/aws): drop unconditioned account-wide KMS data-plane grant from deploy role - #4

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Ported from LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-cli#2078 (monorepo split); closes reserved-instances-cli#1969 (no equivalent issue exists yet in this repo).

The CI/CD deploy role granted kms:Decrypt, kms:Encrypt, kms:GenerateDataKey and kms:CreateGrant on Resource: "*" with no condition. CreateGrant is the serious half: it is a permission-granting action, held account-wide by the identity that runs every deployment.

The fix is deletion rather than a narrower scope, because the correct scope is empty. Nothing on the deploy path uses any of the four. An AWS managed key does not consult the caller's identity policy (only a customer managed key would, and the deploy path has none), so the removed statement was not adding permission to any working path.

A new guard test (TestKMSDataPlaneActionsAreNotUnconditionallyGranted) asserts these four actions are never granted without a condition scoped to aws:ResourceTag/Project (and, for kms:CreateGrant, also kms:GrantIsForAWSResource).

This port carries all three commits from the original PR, including the two review-driven hardening passes: the guard originally failed open on non-literal Action expressions (e.g. Action = local.x, both extractActionListActions and countActionListStrings returned 0, so 0 != 0 raised no error) and treated any non-empty Condition as an exemption regardless of what it scoped. bacd4e15e closes both, reusing the shape of the sibling policy_boundary.tf guard, and was itself checked against ten bypass shapes (inverted operators, NotAction, StringLike "*", wrong tag value, quoted "Action" key, etc.) plus two legitimate shapes that must still pass.

Verification

  • terraform fmt -check -recursive in terraform/environments/aws/ci-cd-permissions/: clean.
  • terraform init -backend=false && terraform validate: Success! The configuration is valid.
  • tflint: no findings.
  • GOWORK=off go test ./terraform/environments/aws/ci-cd-permissions/...: TestKMSDataPlaneActionsAreNotUnconditionallyGranted passes across all 5 policy files (policy_compute.tf, policy_compute_b.tf, policy_data.tf, policy_networking.tf, policy_iam.tf).
  • pre-commit run --files terraform/environments/aws/ci-cd-permissions/policy_guard_test.go terraform/environments/aws/ci-cd-permissions/policy_networking.tf: every applicable hook passed (gofmt, go vet, terraform fmt/validate/lint, gosec, trivy config, AWS-secret scan, cyclomatic complexity).
  • Adversarial re-check for this port: grepped .github/workflows/ and terraform/ for kms:CreateGrant/Decrypt/Encrypt/GenerateDataKey outside the guard test itself. No other statement in the tree grants any of the four, confirming the deleted Sid = "KMS" block in policy_networking.tf had no live consumer in this split repo either.

Nothing changes at runtime until terraform/environments/aws/ci-cd-permissions/ is re-applied by hand (bootstrap module, applied by a privileged human per this repo's IAM split convention).

Review findings from the original PR

All findings were raised and resolved within the original PR's own commit chain, which this port carries in full:

  1. CodeRabbit: the guard's parse-completeness check failed open on a non-literal Action list (Action = local.x) -- fixed in 583a013a6, then found still bypassable in three more shapes by adversarial review and closed for good in bacd4e15e.
  2. CodeRabbit: a bare non-empty Condition was treated as scoping, when it could scope something irrelevant -- fixed in 583a013a6, then found to still pass eight bypass shapes (inverted operator, if-exists, wrong tag value, kms:GrantIsForAWSResource = "false", etc.) by adversarial review, closed in bacd4e15e.
  3. A code comment misattributed which condition key restricts the grantee vs. the call path -- corrected in bacd4e15e.

Nothing was deferred; the head commit (bacd4e15e in the original, carried here) is the state all reviewers signed off on.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security
    • Removed broad KMS encryption permissions from the networking policy, so those operations are no longer granted across all resources.
    • Added checks that flag KMS permissions without the required project-tag conditions, and require an additional safeguard for grant creation.
    • Checks also flag policy statements whose permissions or conditions cannot be reliably evaluated.

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…om deploy role

The KMS statement in cudly-deploy-networking granted kms:CreateGrant,
kms:Decrypt, kms:Encrypt, kms:GenerateDataKey and kms:DescribeKey on
Resource "*" with no Condition. Customer managed keys delegate to IAM by
default, so a leaked GitHub OIDC token assuming the deploy role could
decrypt with, and create grants on, every CMK in the shared account.

Nothing on the deploy path calls the four data-plane actions: the only
CMK CUDly's modules create is the asymmetric SIGN_VERIFY OIDC signing
key, which cannot serve them, and every other encrypted resource (RDS,
Secrets Manager, ECR, the S3 state bucket, Lambda env vars) uses an AWS
managed key whose key policy authorizes account principals through the
service without an IAM grant. kms:DescribeKey stays available through
KMSCreateAndRead in policy_compute.tf.

Remove the statement and add a guard test that fails if any deploy-role
identity policy grants a KMS data-plane action without a Condition, so
the grant cannot come back bare. A tag-gated grant (the
KMSMutateTaggedOnly convention) still passes the guard if a CUDly
symmetric key ever needs one.

The policy description is left mentioning KMS on purpose: description is
ForceNew on aws_iam_policy and editing it would replace the attached
policy instead of updating it in place.

Closes #1969

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fu9uWjxtDFx5HDKeMRt1jC
…ndition

TestKMSDataPlaneActionsAreNotUnconditionallyGranted previously let a
statement's Action expression be a non-literal reference (e.g.
Action = local.x) pass silently: both extractActionListActions and
countActionListStrings parsed it to zero entries, so 0 != 0 raised no
error and the KMS action loop iterated over an empty set. It also
treated any non-empty Condition as an exemption, including one that
scopes nothing relevant, even though the escape hatch is meant to be
a resource-scoping condition. Both were found by review.

The guard now errors when an Allow statement's Action key is present
but not parseable as a literal list or string, and only exempts a
statement when its Condition actually references
aws:ResourceTag/Project (and, for kms:CreateGrant, also
kms:GrantIsForAWSResource).

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fu9uWjxtDFx5HDKeMRt1jC
… review

The prior fix on this branch still let three Allow-statement shapes
dodge both the unreadable-Action check and the NotAction check
silently: a one-line statement, a quoted "Action" key, and NotAction
itself, each of which can grant a KMS data-plane action while the
guard stays green. A valid IAM Allow statement always carries Action
or NotAction, so there is no legitimate statement left to protect by
skipping; the guard now mirrors boundaryAllowedActions' fail-closed
shape, refusing NotAction outright and refusing any statement whose
Action this test cannot parse into literals.

The Condition exemption also still passed on a substring check, which
a wrong tag value, an inverted operator (StringNotEquals), or the tag
key appearing only in a trailing comment could all satisfy while
granting broadly. It now requires an operator literally named
StringEquals or StringEqualsIgnoreCase whose body pins
aws:ResourceTag/Project to CUDly in key position, and for
kms:CreateGrant an additional Bool operator pinning
kms:GrantIsForAWSResource to true, using the existing
statementConditionOperators/anyBlockOpenPattern completeness check so
an operator this guard cannot see is not silently trusted either.

The kms:GrantIsForAWSResource comment also attributed the wrong
mechanism: it does not scope who a grant authorizes (that is
kms:GranteePrincipal), it restricts the call path to CreateGrant made
by an AWS service on the deploy role's behalf rather than a direct
caller. Comment corrected.

All found by review.

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fu9uWjxtDFx5HDKeMRt1jC
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The networking IAM policy no longer grants five KMS actions on all resources. A new test scans guarded policy documents and checks KMS data-plane grants for required project-tag and grant conditions.

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KMS policy grant guard

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Remove the broad grant and add policy checks
terraform/environments/aws/ci-cd-permissions/policy_networking.tf, terraform/environments/aws/ci-cd-permissions/policy_guard_test.go
The networking policy’s KMS allow statement was removed. The new test checks KMS action grants, required conditions, and unreadable or unsupported policy statements.

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The broad KMS grant is gone, but the safeguard can accept a grant whose required restrictions appear only in comments. Fix that gap before relying on the test to prevent the grant from returning.

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Match condition assignments, not comment text.

readPolicySource removes only whole-line # comments. It retains trailing # and // comments. statementConditionBody returns the condition text verbatim, and the KMS patterns search that text directly.

A valid Terraform condition can therefore make the guard accept comment text:

StringEquals = {
  "aws:RequestedRegion" = "us-east-1" # "aws:ResourceTag/Project" = "CUDly"
}

The Bool pattern has the same gap. For kms:CreateGrant, matching both comment assignments can satisfy both guard flags. Parse condition assignments or remove inline comments before applying either pattern.

This is a guard-coverage gap only. The test reads policy source and reports failures; it does not alter the rendered IAM policy or create a production failure.

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Update the KMS condition matching used by the resource-scoping and Bool patterns
so trailing `#` and `//` comments cannot satisfy either guard. Strip inline
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unreadListElements with actionAssignmentPattern before deriving granted; if it
finds unread elements, report them and skip the statement so unresolved Action
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CodeRabbit review on the port (cloud-commitments-platform#4): a mixed
Action list like ["ec2:DescribeInstances", local.kms_action] evaded
TestKMSDataPlaneActionsAreNotUnconditionallyGranted. countActionListStrings
counts quoted strings only, so a bare (unquoted) local/var reference
contributes to neither it nor extractActionListActions -- both counts
agree at 1, the n != len(granted) check stays quiet, and the unresolved
element is simply absent from `granted`, so a KMS data-plane action
behind it is invisible to this guard.

unreadListElements already exists and is used by three sibling guards in
this file (the boundary ceiling check, a Resource-list check, and a
Condition-value check) for exactly this class of hole, but this guard's
Action-list check never called it. Call it before deriving `granted`, so
a statement with any unread element is rejected before the guard trusts
what it *could* parse.

GOWORK=off go test ./terraform/environments/aws/ci-cd-permissions/...
passes (40/40), including the existing form of this same check
(unreadListElements) already covering the sibling boundary guard.

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Independent adversarial review + local verification: MERGE at 92535af. Every consumer of the removed unconditioned KMS data-plane grant traced (signing key is SIGN_VERIFY, SNS encryption off by default, RDS/registry use AWS-managed keys, no workflow/CFN needs it); new guard test fails on pre-fix code (4 errors) and passes after (40/40); terraform fmt/validate/tflint clean; 24/24 checks green. Bootstrap module: takes effect on the next manual ci-cd-permissions re-apply (platform#2).

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