// MITRE ATT&CK
T1548.005 · Temporary Elevated Cloud Access
Sub-technique of T1548 · Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism.
Adversaries may abuse permission configurations that allow them to gain temporarily elevated access to cloud resources. Many cloud environments allow administrators to grant user or service accounts permission to request just-in-time access to roles, impersonate other accounts, pass roles onto resou...
How to detect & mitigate it
Detecting Temporary Elevated Cloud Access starts with your SIEM/EDR telemetry. Write a detection rule with the Sigma generator, analyze suspicious logs in the log analyzer, and place the technique on your coverage with the ATT&CK matrix.
Related techniques
T1546.013
PowerShell Profile T1546.006
LC_LOAD_DYLIB Addition T1548.002
Bypass User Account Control T1548.003
Sudo and Sudo Caching T1546.011
Application Shimming T1611
Escape to Host T1546.005
Trap T1548
Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
PowerShell Profile T1546.006
LC_LOAD_DYLIB Addition T1548.002
Bypass User Account Control T1548.003
Sudo and Sudo Caching T1546.011
Application Shimming T1611
Escape to Host T1546.005
Trap T1548
Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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