Eventual Consistency Eventual consistency in AWS’s Identity & Access Management (IAM) service is a well-documented phenomenon. In short, when IAM changes are made in AWS, those changes actually take a few seconds to propagate through AWS’s internal system. Within this propagation window, an attacker-controlled identity with the right starting permissions could theoretically detect and reverse…
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