AWSHound: An OpenSource AWS OpenGraph Collector
SpecterOps open-sources AWSHound, which maps effective privilege-escalation paths across AWS IAM — filling a gap that SimulatePrincipalPolicy alone cannot address during cloud assessments.
Summary written by editorial AI · Source link below
Daniel Heinsen and I have spent a lot of my time trying to answer one question inside AWS environments, usually in a hurry: “Starting from the access I have right now, where can I actually end up?” That turns out to be a hard question to answer in AWS. iam:SimulatePrincipalPolicy will evaluate one action, against […] The post AWSHound: An OpenSource AWS OpenGraph Collector appeared first on SpecterOps .
Editorial Analysis
Understanding actual privilege reachability in AWS is a persistent blind spot; AWSHound gives defenders the same graph-based view that attackers build manually during engagements.
Run AWSHound against your AWS environments to discover hidden privilege-escalation paths and remediate overly permissive IAM configurations.
A new open-source tool maps hidden privilege-escalation routes in AWS, helping identify access risks before attackers exploit them.
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