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Users should not be granted service account access at the folder level
GCP-0005
Service: iamSeverity: medium
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Users with service account access at folder level can impersonate any service account. Instead, they should be given access to particular service accounts as required.
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Provide access at the service-level instead of folder-level, if required
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# METADATA
# title: Users should not be granted service account access at the folder level
# description: |
# Users with service account access at folder level can impersonate any service account. Instead, they should be given access to particular service accounts as required.
# scope: package
# schemas:
# - input: schema["cloud"]
# related_resources:
# - https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/impersonating-service-accounts
# custom:
# id: GCP-0005
# long_id: google-iam-no-folder-level-service-account-impersonation
# aliases:
# - AVD-GCP-0005
# - no-folder-level-service-account-impersonation
# - google-iam-no-folder-level-service-account-impersonation
# provider: google
# service: iam
# severity: MEDIUM
# recommended_action: Provide access at the service-level instead of folder-level, if required
# input:
# selector:
# - type: cloud
# subtypes:
# - service: iam
# provider: google
# examples: checks/cloud/google/iam/no_folder_level_service_account_impersonation.yaml
package builtin.google.IAM.google0005
import rego.v1
import data.lib.google.iam
deny contains res if {
some role in iam.roles("folders")
iam.is_privileged_access_role(role.value)
res := result.new("Folder-level service account access grants the member broad impersonation rights.", role)
}