Pouya's rulings, 2026-09-02.
Q63(a) — wording approved with two trims: the editorial closing sentence is
struck, and the mailbox clause is rewritten per (b).
Q63(b) — info@smlcompany.ca is a delegated mailbox read by Pouya and by
administrative staff. The page said "anyone who can reach that mailbox"; it now
says who. The answer reached four sentences, not the one the ruling named, in
three sections: "my mailbox" had been written as a personal one throughout.
Q63(c) — the account root credential is held by Pouya, has no programmatic key
and carries MFA. The page now states the first two.
And the answer to (c) took the human headcount off the page. His attestation:
"two people is an exaggeration... a handful is accurate — the simulation counts
identities, not humans, and the two are not the same claim." The enumeration was
exhaustive and the inference off it was not: two IAM identities is a LOWER BOUND
on people and was published as an exact count. The page now attributes read
access to "the account's administrators — me, and the small number of people who
administer it with me", and the false inference is corrected at its source in
docs/reference/intake-table-access-verification.md as well as on the page.
R10 — CLOSED on a fresh one-line confirmation, not on the 2026-08-28 stamp.
ADRIC, ADRIO, the three OBA sections and the CTF all current. Re-stamped on all
four stamp-bearing sites; the row stays live, because its trigger is an event.
/med-arb/ — ratified as shipped, no credential line restored. His note for the
record: med-arb is a service he provides, not a designation.
The tripwire is unchanged and proven both ways: exit 0 on the revised page,
exit 1 with 5 matches on the pre-correction bytes rebuilt from bd282aa.
A sentence added to back the correction had no command behind it. "The table
carries no policy of its own granting access to anyone" was published with
nothing in the repo establishing it — a DynamoDB resource policy is invisible to
describe-table, and every simulation on file asks what a principal may do.
Measured rather than deleted: get-resource-policy returns PolicyNotFoundException,
and describe-organization returns AWSOrganizationsNotInUseException, which is
what makes the Identity Center zero conclusive rather than merely local. Both
recorded as commands 7 and 8; R21 gains claim (v) and two falsifiers.
Q64 OPENED, with a TODO(pouya) and an unticked cutover item: "I hold it" is true
whether or not a second person holds it, and reads as sole custody one paragraph
below "the small number of people who administer it with me". The request to
strike the possessive now is declined with a reason — he dictated the clause —
and the page cannot ship while the TODO stands.
Two review rounds, 22 findings, 21 resolved, 1 declined. Nine of round 2's twelve
were defects in round 1's own repairs. Stopped at two per D19.
Gates, exit status read: check 0 · build 0 (23 pages) · check:claims 0 ·
og:proof 0 · check:intake 0 · lint 0 · router.test 0 (30/30) · lighthouse 0,
worst of 23 99/100/100/100, /legal/privacy/ 100/100/100.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Md3GndFqWPzK78xAoebsg5
496 lines
28 KiB
Markdown
496 lines
28 KiB
Markdown
# Who can read `adr-intake-submissions` — verification extract
|
||
|
||
**Why this file exists.** `/legal/privacy/` makes a statement to the public about
|
||
who can see the contents of the intake table. `AGENTS.md` §4 admits no factual
|
||
claim that cannot be traced, and `CLAUDE.md`'s R14 rule is that anything a spec
|
||
claims about must be reachable from the repository — *"if the artefact lives only
|
||
in a console, no reviewer can compare the claim against it and the claim is
|
||
unverifiable by construction."* Until this file existed, that sentence was the
|
||
one claim on the site whose subject was entirely outside the repo.
|
||
|
||
Raised by `claims-auditor` in the D20 cutover audit, 2026-09-01, finding 8.
|
||
|
||
**Provenance.** Figures in the ORIGINAL sections were read from AWS on
|
||
**2026-09-01**; everything in the **2026-09-02 addendum** at the foot of this file
|
||
was read on 2026-09-02, and it supersedes the original role screen. Both were run
|
||
read-only as `arn:aws:iam::327082975128:user/pouya` with the commands listed at
|
||
the end.
|
||
No command in this file creates or changes anything. Re-run them rather than
|
||
trusting this file; it is dated for that reason.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## ✅ RULED AND APPLIED — 2026-09-02
|
||
|
||
**Pouya ruled `state the truth`, not `remove the access`** (§9 Q62, ruled
|
||
2026-09-01, applied 2026-09-02). Option 2 below is the one taken; option 1 was
|
||
declined. `lars`'s membership of `admins` is **unchanged**.
|
||
|
||
⚠️ **AND THEN RULED AGAIN THE SAME DAY — §9 Q63, and the second ruling is the
|
||
one this file most needs to carry, because THIS FILE SUPPLIED THE ERROR.** The
|
||
first shipped sentence was *"Two people can"*, and it was read straight off the
|
||
enumeration below. **Pouya's attestation, 2026-09-02:** *"two people is an
|
||
exaggeration… a handful is accurate — the simulation counts identities, not
|
||
humans, and the two are not the same claim."*
|
||
|
||
**The enumeration is exhaustive and the inference off it was not.** Every read
|
||
path terminates at `user/pouya` or `user/lars`; how many **people** can reach
|
||
those two credentials is not something `simulate-principal-policy` can see, so
|
||
the identity count is a **lower bound on people** and the page published it as an
|
||
exact count. **No numeric human headcount may ship.** The identity counts in this
|
||
file are unaffected and stay exactly as measured — this is a correction to what
|
||
may be *concluded* from them, not to any of them.
|
||
|
||
**The shipped sentences as at 2026-09-02**, so this file can be compared against
|
||
the live page rather than against a struck one:
|
||
|
||
> The account's administrators can — me, and the small number of people who
|
||
> administer it with me. The table sits in an Amazon Web Services account that
|
||
> also runs systems unrelated to this practice, and administrative access to that
|
||
> account carries the ability to read the table. That is who can read the stored
|
||
> record; who reads the notification email is a separate question, answered in the
|
||
> last paragraph of this section.
|
||
|
||
> The access itself is measured rather than assumed: every user and every role in
|
||
> the account was simulated against this table, and every identity that comes back
|
||
> able to read it is reachable only by those administrators. The account has no
|
||
> single sign-on and no federated login configured, and the table carries no
|
||
> policy of its own granting access to anyone. The account's root credential — the
|
||
> one path no policy constrains — has no programmatic key, and I hold it.
|
||
|
||
> The function that receives the form **can only add a record — it cannot read
|
||
> the table back.** And the credential that publishes this website has **no
|
||
> access to the table at all**, for reading or for writing.
|
||
|
||
**The wording was approved by Pouya on 2026-09-02 with two trims** (§9 Q63(a)) —
|
||
the editorial closing sentence struck, and the mailbox clause rewritten because
|
||
`info@smlcompany.ca` is **a delegated mailbox read by Pouya and administrative
|
||
staff**, not a personal one (Q63(b); the fact is in `AGENTS.md` §7). **`33` was
|
||
deliberately not published**: a role total moves when AWS creates a service-linked
|
||
role by itself, and *"every user and every role in the account"* carries the
|
||
exhaustiveness without putting a second self-staling number on a legal page.
|
||
|
||
⚠️ **AND THE ENUMERATION BELOW WAS NOT ENOUGH TO SUPPORT THE SECOND OF THOSE
|
||
SENTENCES. See the addendum at the foot of this file**, which is what the page
|
||
actually rests on. Read it before citing the five-row table.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## The claim being checked — ⚠️ STRUCK 2026-09-01, QUOTED HERE AS THE DEFECT
|
||
|
||
This is **no longer on the page.** It is kept because it is the string
|
||
`check-claims.mjs`'s `sole-administrator-q62` pattern permanently bars, and a
|
||
tripwire whose target is not recorded anywhere becomes unmaintainable.
|
||
|
||
`src/pages/legal/privacy.astro`, §Who can see it, **as it stood at `bd282aa`**:
|
||
|
||
> The table is reachable by the function that writes to it and by one
|
||
> administrative account, which is mine — nobody else has access to the table.
|
||
> There is no team, no assistant and no external administrator.
|
||
|
||
## The finding: it is false
|
||
|
||
The account has an IAM group **`admins`** carrying the AWS managed policy
|
||
**`AdministratorAccess`**, and it has **two members: `pouya` and `lars`.**
|
||
|
||
`iam simulate-principal-policy` for `dynamodb:GetItem`, `dynamodb:Query` and
|
||
`dynamodb:Scan` against
|
||
`arn:aws:dynamodb:ca-central-1:327082975128:table/adr-intake-submissions`, across
|
||
all five IAM users in the account:
|
||
|
||
| principal | GetItem | Query | Scan |
|
||
|---|---|---|---|
|
||
| `user/pouya` | **allowed** | **allowed** | **allowed** |
|
||
| `user/lars` | **allowed** | **allowed** | **allowed** |
|
||
| `user/adr-sml-deploy` | implicitDeny | implicitDeny | implicitDeny |
|
||
| `user/gitea-deploy-meshkinilaw` | implicitDeny | implicitDeny | implicitDeny |
|
||
| `user/meshkini-backend-deploy` | implicitDeny | implicitDeny | implicitDeny |
|
||
|
||
`lars` holds exactly the access `pouya` holds, by the same route: membership of
|
||
`admins`. The user's own attachments are only `IAMUserChangePassword`, so the
|
||
group is the whole of it.
|
||
|
||
So the published sentence is wrong on both of its halves — a second account has
|
||
access, and it belongs to a second administrator of a shared account.
|
||
|
||
## The rest of the surface, recorded so the check is complete rather than partial
|
||
|
||
- **5 IAM users**: `adr-sml-deploy`, `gitea-deploy-meshkinilaw`, `lars`,
|
||
`meshkini-backend-deploy`, `pouya`. The three deploy users are all
|
||
`implicitDeny` above. `adr-sml-deploy`'s scope is S3 + CloudFront and touches
|
||
no table (`docs/reference/deploy-credential-verification.md`).
|
||
- **1 IAM group**: `admins` — `AdministratorAccess` and `Billing`, two members.
|
||
- **33 IAM roles**, 26 of them not service-linked. Two carry
|
||
`AdministratorAccess`:
|
||
`cdk-hnb659fds-cfn-exec-role-327082975128-ca-central-1` and
|
||
`…-us-east-1`. These are **AWS CDK bootstrap CloudFormation execution roles**,
|
||
assumable by CloudFormation for stack deployment. They are a real path to the
|
||
table for anyone who can deploy a CDK stack in this account — which is the two
|
||
administrators above — rather than a third party.
|
||
- **`adr-intake-lambda-role`** is the writing principal: `dynamodb:PutItem` on
|
||
this table, `ses:SendEmail`/`SendRawEmail`, plus
|
||
`AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole`. **`PutItem` only — it cannot read the table**,
|
||
which is worth stating because it is a stronger fact than the page currently
|
||
claims and it is the part of the sentence that is true.
|
||
- **No resource-based policy on the table.** DynamoDB supports one; this table
|
||
has none, so access is governed entirely by identity policies.
|
||
- The account is **not single-project** (`AGENTS.md` §10). `lars` and the two
|
||
`meshkini*`/`gitea*` users are evidence of that on the IAM surface, not just
|
||
in the S3 bucket listing §10 describes.
|
||
|
||
## What had to happen before `/legal/privacy/` went public — ✅ RESOLVED BY OPTION 2
|
||
|
||
Tracked as `AGENTS.md` §9 **Q62**, **closed 2026-09-02 on option 2.** Kept
|
||
unstruck because the reasoning is what makes the ruling re-readable, and because
|
||
option 1 remains live in one direction: if that access is ever actually removed,
|
||
the page and the tripwire both have to change, and `check-claims.mjs`'s `rule:`
|
||
line carries that instruction.
|
||
|
||
1. **Remove the access** — take `lars` out of `admins`, or replace that
|
||
membership with a policy that denies DynamoDB on this table — and then this
|
||
sentence becomes true. Note the likely collision: `AGENTS.md` Q23 records the
|
||
Gitea instance as *jointly administered* and blocked on *"its second
|
||
administrator"*, so this account is probably not the only thing that access
|
||
is for.
|
||
2. **Correct the sentence** to what is true. It is a privacy policy, so the
|
||
honest version is short and specific — the number of people with
|
||
administrative access, and that the function that writes cannot read.
|
||
|
||
**Do not resolve it by softening.** "Access is limited to authorised
|
||
administrators" is the shape §4 exists to bar: defensible, uninformative, and it
|
||
would replace a false specific with a true vacancy on the one page where a reader
|
||
is entitled to the specific.
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## Commands
|
||
|
||
Run as `user/pouya`, `ca-central-1`, all read-only. Exit status read on each; no
|
||
stderr suppressed anywhere.
|
||
|
||
```bash
|
||
aws iam list-users --query 'Users[].UserName'
|
||
aws iam list-groups --query 'Groups[].GroupName'
|
||
aws iam get-group --group-name admins --query 'Users[].UserName'
|
||
aws iam list-attached-group-policies --group-name admins --query 'AttachedPolicies[].PolicyName'
|
||
aws iam list-group-policies --group-name admins --query 'PolicyNames'
|
||
aws iam list-groups-for-user --user-name lars --query 'Groups[].GroupName'
|
||
aws iam list-attached-user-policies --user-name lars --query 'AttachedPolicies[].PolicyName'
|
||
aws iam list-user-policies --user-name lars --query 'PolicyNames'
|
||
|
||
TARN="arn:aws:dynamodb:ca-central-1:327082975128:table/adr-intake-submissions"
|
||
for U in pouya lars adr-sml-deploy gitea-deploy-meshkinilaw meshkini-backend-deploy; do
|
||
aws iam simulate-principal-policy \
|
||
--policy-source-arn "arn:aws:iam::327082975128:user/${U}" \
|
||
--action-names dynamodb:GetItem dynamodb:Query dynamodb:Scan \
|
||
--resource-arns "$TARN" \
|
||
--query 'EvaluationResults[].{A:EvalActionName,D:EvalDecision}' --output text
|
||
done
|
||
|
||
# Roles: 33 total, 26 non-service-linked; screened for broad policies.
|
||
for R in $(aws iam list-roles --query 'Roles[].RoleName' --output text \
|
||
| tr '\t' '\n' | grep -v '^AWSServiceRole'); do
|
||
aws iam list-attached-role-policies --role-name "$R" \
|
||
--query 'AttachedPolicies[].PolicyName' --output text
|
||
done
|
||
|
||
aws iam get-role-policy --role-name adr-intake-lambda-role \
|
||
--policy-name adr-intake-lambda-inline --query PolicyDocument
|
||
aws iam list-attached-role-policies --role-name adr-intake-lambda-role
|
||
```
|
||
|
||
⚠️ **`simulate-principal-policy` was the tool that produced a false negative on
|
||
this project once already** — `AGENTS.md` Q22, where eight checks returned empty
|
||
because `2>/dev/null` was hiding an `InvalidInput` error caused by a zsh
|
||
parameter-expansion bug (`$ACCT:user/` parses `:u` as a history modifier). The
|
||
loop above brace-quotes `${U}` for that reason, prints one line per principal so
|
||
a silently-skipped iteration is visible as a missing row, and suppresses nothing.
|
||
**Five rows, or the run did not happen.**
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
## ⚠️ ADDENDUM 2026-09-02 — THE ENUMERATION ABOVE WAS INCOMPLETE IN THREE WAYS, AND ITS CONCLUSION SURVIVES ANYWAY
|
||
|
||
**Why this addendum exists.** `/legal/privacy/` publishes a completeness claim
|
||
about who can read this table — the second of the three sentences quoted at the
|
||
top of this file, under **The shipped sentences**. Written as it stood, this file
|
||
did not support it.
|
||
|
||
*(This paragraph quoted a different sentence until 2026-09-02 — round 1's
|
||
**pre-fix** wording, *"every account and role in this infrastructure…"*, which
|
||
the audit then struck. So this file briefly quoted two different sentences as the
|
||
live one, in the two halves of the same document, which defeats the comparison
|
||
R14 exists for. Fixed by pointing at the block above rather than re-quoting it:
|
||
one copy of a fact, in one place. `adversarial-reviewer`, round 2.)* Under R14 the artefact is what a reviewer compares the
|
||
claim against, so a claim stronger than its artefact is unverifiable by
|
||
construction even when it happens to be true.
|
||
|
||
**What was missing.**
|
||
|
||
1. **`aws iam list-role-policies` was never run.** The command block above lists
|
||
only `list-attached-role-policies`, which returns *managed* policies. **23 of
|
||
the 26 non-service-linked roles carry inline policies**, and none of them had
|
||
been read. The screen for "broad policies" could not have seen an inline grant.
|
||
2. **No role was ever simulated against the table.** Access was inferred from
|
||
policy *names* (`AdministratorAccess`) rather than measured as a decision.
|
||
3. **The five users were simulated for reads only** — `GetItem`, `Query`, `Scan`.
|
||
So the page's *"the credential that publishes this website has no access to the
|
||
table at all"* covered three read actions and said "at all".
|
||
|
||
**What the measurement found, and it changes the role count.** Simulating all 26
|
||
non-service-linked roles across **seven** actions — `GetItem`, `Query`, `Scan`,
|
||
`BatchGetItem`, `PutItem`, `UpdateItem`, `DeleteItem`:
|
||
|
||
| role | decision on the table | trust |
|
||
|---|---|---|
|
||
| `cdk-hnb659fds-cfn-exec-role-…-ca-central-1` | **allowed on all 7** | `cloudformation.amazonaws.com` only |
|
||
| `cdk-hnb659fds-cfn-exec-role-…-us-east-1` | **allowed on all 7** | `cloudformation.amazonaws.com` only |
|
||
| `cdk-hnb659fds-lookup-role-…-ca-central-1` | **allowed on the 4 READS**, denied on writes | `arn:aws:iam::327082975128:root` |
|
||
| `cdk-hnb659fds-lookup-role-…-us-east-1` | **allowed on the 4 READS**, denied on writes | `arn:aws:iam::327082975128:root` |
|
||
| `adr-intake-lambda-role` | `PutItem` **only**; implicitDeny on the other six | `lambda.amazonaws.com` |
|
||
| the other 21 | implicitDeny on all 7 | — |
|
||
|
||
**So FOUR roles can read the table, not the two this file recorded.** The two
|
||
`lookup` roles were missed by exactly the gap above: their grant is the inline
|
||
`LookupRolePolicy`, and `list-attached-role-policies` returns nothing for them.
|
||
|
||
**Why the published sentence is nevertheless correct.** The question is not how
|
||
many roles exist but which *people* they lead back to.
|
||
|
||
- The two **cfn-exec** roles trust `cloudformation.amazonaws.com` and nothing
|
||
else. No human can assume them; they are reachable only by deploying a
|
||
CloudFormation/CDK stack, which requires a principal who can deploy one.
|
||
- The two **lookup** roles trust the account root, which delegates the decision
|
||
to the caller's own identity policy. Simulated for `sts:AssumeRole` against
|
||
both role ARNs, for all five users, reading `ResourceSpecificResults` (ten
|
||
per-resource decisions, not five — `EvaluationResults` is one entry per
|
||
**action**, and an earlier pass here asserted the wrong count):
|
||
|
||
| principal | assume `lookup-…-ca-central-1` | assume `lookup-…-us-east-1` |
|
||
|---|---|---|
|
||
| `user/pouya` | **allowed** | **allowed** |
|
||
| `user/lars` | **allowed** | **allowed** |
|
||
| `user/adr-sml-deploy` | implicitDeny | implicitDeny |
|
||
| `user/gitea-deploy-meshkinilaw` | implicitDeny | implicitDeny |
|
||
| `user/meshkini-backend-deploy` | implicitDeny | implicitDeny |
|
||
|
||
- The **CloudFormation escalation path this file named and left untested** —
|
||
*"a real path to the table for anyone who can deploy a CDK stack"* — is now
|
||
measured. Simulated for `cloudformation:CreateStack`, `UpdateStack`,
|
||
`CreateChangeSet`, `ExecuteChangeSet`, `iam:PassRole` and `sts:AssumeRole`,
|
||
five users × six actions = **30 decisions**, count asserted:
|
||
|
||
| principal | the CDK / CloudFormation path |
|
||
|---|---|
|
||
| `user/pouya` | **allowed** on all six |
|
||
| `user/lars` | **allowed** on all six |
|
||
| `user/adr-sml-deploy` | implicitDeny on all six |
|
||
| `user/gitea-deploy-meshkinilaw` | implicitDeny on all six |
|
||
| `user/meshkini-backend-deploy` | implicitDeny on all six |
|
||
|
||
This is the finding that mattered most, because `meshkini-backend-deploy` is by
|
||
its name another project's backend-deploy credential and
|
||
`gitea-deploy-meshkinilaw` is held on a **jointly administered** Gitea instance
|
||
(Q23). Either one, had it been able to drive CloudFormation, would have read
|
||
the table without appearing in the five-row table above — and *"Two people
|
||
can"* would have been wrong. Neither can.
|
||
|
||
- **And the seven roles every sweep here had excluded BY CONSTRUCTION are now
|
||
measured too.** Every role loop in this file filters `grep -v
|
||
'^AWSServiceRole'`, and the assertion was written as *"twenty-six role rows"* —
|
||
so a service-linked role was outside the claim rather than inside it, which
|
||
matters because a service-linked role for a backup or migration service can
|
||
read table contents. All **7** (`APIGateway`, `CloudFrontLogger`,
|
||
`InternetMonitor`, `RDS`, `ResourceExplorer`, `Support`, `TrustedAdvisor`) are
|
||
**implicitDeny on all seven actions** — 49 decisions, count asserted
|
||
`[verified 2026-09-02]`. **So the enumeration is 33 of 33 roles, not 26 of
|
||
33**, and the page's *"every user and every role in the account"* is now
|
||
literally true. Raised by `adversarial-reviewer`, round 2.
|
||
|
||
- **There is no federated identity surface at all**: `list-saml-providers` **0**,
|
||
`list-open-id-connect-providers` **0**, `sso-admin list-instances` **0**
|
||
`[verified 2026-09-02]`. So "every user and every role" is not leaving out a
|
||
federated principal, because there is none to leave out.
|
||
|
||
- ⚠️ **AND THE `sso-admin` ZERO NEEDED A SECOND COMMAND TO MEAN ANYTHING, added
|
||
2026-09-02 (round 2).** `list-instances` answers about the account it is called
|
||
in, so a **member of an AWS Organization returns 0 while Identity Center runs in
|
||
the management account** — the zero would have been true and the conclusion
|
||
false. `aws organizations describe-organization` returns
|
||
**`AWSOrganizationsNotInUseException`: "Your account is not a member of an
|
||
organization"** `[verified 2026-09-02]`, so there is no management account above
|
||
this one and the zero is conclusive. Command 8.
|
||
|
||
- **The table carries NO RESOURCE-BASED POLICY OF ITS OWN**, and this is now a
|
||
command rather than an assertion. `aws dynamodb get-resource-policy` returns
|
||
**`PolicyNotFoundException`** `[verified 2026-09-02]` — exit **254**, the error
|
||
on stderr being the result. ⚠️ **A DynamoDB resource policy is invisible to
|
||
`describe-table`**, so no earlier command in this file could have seen one, and
|
||
`/legal/privacy/` publishes the claim (*"the table carries no policy of its own
|
||
granting access to anyone"*). It is the identity-policy enumeration's blind
|
||
spot: every simulation here asks what a **principal** may do, and a resource
|
||
policy grants from the other side. Found unbacked by `adversarial-reviewer`
|
||
round 2, on §10's own precedent — the client-backup bucket, where
|
||
`get-bucket-policy` returning `NoSuchBucketPolicy` was recorded because *"a
|
||
policy read alone could not have established the second half."* Command 7.
|
||
|
||
Every read path therefore terminates at `pouya` or `lars`. ⚠️ **AND THAT IS
|
||
WHERE THIS FILE WENT WRONG, SO THE CORRECTION SITS AT THE SENTENCE THAT CAUSED
|
||
IT.** This read *"The count of people is two, and it is now the result of an
|
||
enumeration rather than of a policy name"* until 2026-09-02, and `/legal/privacy/`
|
||
published that count. **It is a count of IDENTITIES.** Two credentials is a lower
|
||
bound on the number of people who can use them, and Pouya's attestation is that
|
||
*"a handful"* is the true figure (§9 Q63). The enumeration stands exactly as
|
||
measured; **an enumeration of principals is not a census.**
|
||
|
||
**The account root user, recorded because an enumeration that quietly omits it is
|
||
not an enumeration.** Root is not an IAM user and does not appear in
|
||
`list-users`, so it cannot be simulated and no policy constrains it — root can
|
||
always read the table. Two facts bound it: `get-account-summary` reports
|
||
`AccountAccessKeysPresent: 0`, so **there is no programmatic root credential**,
|
||
and `AccountMFAEnabled: 1`. Root access therefore requires the root password and
|
||
its MFA device.
|
||
|
||
⚠️ **THIS PASSAGE SAID *"The page does not mention root and should not"*, AND
|
||
THAT JUDGEMENT IS SUPERSEDED — §9 Q63(c), 2026-09-02.** It was reasoned from its
|
||
own last clause: *"Who holds the root credentials is not established in this
|
||
repository."* **Pouya established it on 2026-09-02: he holds it**
|
||
`[verified 2026-09-02 — Pouya]`. With the holder known, mentioning root
|
||
**strengthens** the paragraph rather than opening a hole in it — it closes the
|
||
one path a careful reader would ask about after being told every user and every
|
||
role was simulated. The page now states that the root credential has no
|
||
programmatic key and that he holds it; it does not state a headcount for it, and
|
||
`AGENTS.md` §7 carries the fact with §12 R21's trigger on it. ⚠️ **AND THE
|
||
ATTESTATION IS *held by Pouya*, NOT *held ONLY by Pouya* — §9 Q64 is open on
|
||
exactly that gap.** Nothing here excludes a second holder: root cannot be
|
||
simulated, and `get-account-summary` reports only that there is no access key and
|
||
that MFA is on. The shipped possessive sits one paragraph below *"the small
|
||
number of people who administer it with me"*, where a reader takes it as sole
|
||
custody. **This is the identity/human error of Q63 pointing the other way** — one
|
||
line from Pouya either arms it or strikes the possessive. The rest of the
|
||
original reasoning holds and is why the sentence is still scoped the way it is:
|
||
an account owner's own credential is inherent to every cloud account and is not a
|
||
third party who has been granted access, which is why the shipped sentence is
|
||
scoped to *"every user and every role"* and to who has been *granted* access
|
||
rather than to a bare "nobody else can".
|
||
|
||
**Two page sentences are now supported that were not before.**
|
||
|
||
- *"The function that receives the form can only add a record and cannot read the
|
||
table back"* — `adr-intake-lambda-role` returns `allowed` for `PutItem` and
|
||
`implicitDeny` for `GetItem`, `Query`, `Scan`, `BatchGetItem`, `UpdateItem` and
|
||
`DeleteItem`. Previously this rested on reading the policy document; it is now
|
||
the simulator's decision.
|
||
- *"the credential that publishes this website has no access to the table at
|
||
all"* — `adr-sml-deploy` is `implicitDeny` on all **seven**, so "at all" now
|
||
covers writes and deletes as well as reads.
|
||
|
||
**And it corroborates §10 from the IAM surface.** Of the 26 non-service-linked
|
||
roles, **9 belong to CDK bootstrap** and **14 to four unrelated production
|
||
systems** in the same account — which is what `/legal/privacy/` now tells a
|
||
reader in as many words. *(Their role names were listed here until 2026-09-02 and
|
||
are not any more: this is a committed file, they are another project's IAM
|
||
surface, and the count carries the whole of the argument. `adversarial-reviewer`,
|
||
round 2.)*
|
||
|
||
⚠️ **THE INSTRUMENT FAILED FIRST, UNIFORMLY, AND IN THE DIRECTION THAT READS AS
|
||
CLEAN.** The role sweep was first run as `--action-names $ACTS` with the seven
|
||
actions in a shell variable. **zsh does not word-split parameter expansions**, so
|
||
`simulate-principal-policy` received **one** action name — the whole string — and
|
||
answered it: `implicitDeny` for 22 roles, and `allowed` for the four with a `*`
|
||
grant, because `*` matches a bogus action too. Twenty-two clean rows and a
|
||
plausible four. The tell was the shape of the output, not the verdict: one
|
||
decision per role where there should have been seven. **The fix is the assertion,
|
||
not the memory** — the loop now counts `EvaluationResults` per call and refuses a
|
||
row that does not carry exactly seven, and the users' assume check counts
|
||
`ResourceSpecificResults` and refuses a row that does not carry exactly two.
|
||
`CLAUDE.md` records this class five times over; this is the sixth, and it is the
|
||
"uniformly good" half.
|
||
|
||
### Commands — the ones this addendum rests on
|
||
|
||
Read-only, run as `user/pouya` in `ca-central-1`. No stderr suppressed, exit
|
||
status read on every call, and note the **literal** action lists: they are not in
|
||
a variable, which is the whole point above.
|
||
|
||
```bash
|
||
# 1. Inline policies — the command the original block never ran.
|
||
# ⚠️ THE `grep -v` IS THE ORIGINAL DEFECT AND IS KEPT ONLY TO SHOW IT. It
|
||
# excluded the 7 service-linked roles from a claim written as "every role", and a
|
||
# service-linked role for a backup or migration service CAN read table contents.
|
||
# For a full run, DELETE the grep -v — all 33 must be screened, which is what the
|
||
# 2026-09-02 addendum measured and what the page's "every user and every role"
|
||
# now rests on.
|
||
aws iam list-roles --query 'Roles[].RoleName' --output text \
|
||
| tr '\t' '\n' \
|
||
| while IFS= read -r R; do
|
||
aws iam list-role-policies --role-name "$R" --query 'PolicyNames' --output text
|
||
done
|
||
|
||
# 2. Every non-service-linked role, seven actions, decision asserted per row.
|
||
# The count check is what makes a broken call loud instead of clean.
|
||
aws iam simulate-principal-policy \
|
||
--policy-source-arn "arn:aws:iam::327082975128:role/<ROLE>" \
|
||
--action-names dynamodb:GetItem dynamodb:Query dynamodb:Scan \
|
||
dynamodb:BatchGetItem dynamodb:PutItem dynamodb:UpdateItem \
|
||
dynamodb:DeleteItem \
|
||
--resource-arns "arn:aws:dynamodb:ca-central-1:327082975128:table/adr-intake-submissions" \
|
||
--query 'length(EvaluationResults)' --output text # must print 7
|
||
|
||
# 3. Trust policies of the four roles that can read.
|
||
aws iam get-role --role-name <ROLE> --query 'Role.AssumeRolePolicyDocument'
|
||
|
||
# 4. Who can assume the two lookup roles — per RESOURCE, not per action.
|
||
aws iam simulate-principal-policy \
|
||
--policy-source-arn "arn:aws:iam::327082975128:user/<USER>" \
|
||
--action-names sts:AssumeRole \
|
||
--resource-arns "arn:aws:iam::327082975128:role/cdk-hnb659fds-lookup-role-327082975128-ca-central-1" \
|
||
"arn:aws:iam::327082975128:role/cdk-hnb659fds-lookup-role-327082975128-us-east-1" \
|
||
--query 'EvaluationResults[].ResourceSpecificResults[].{R:EvalResourceName,D:EvalResourceDecision}' \
|
||
--output text # must print 2 rows
|
||
```
|
||
|
||
```bash
|
||
# 5. The CloudFormation / CDK escalation path, per user. Six actions, literal.
|
||
aws iam simulate-principal-policy \
|
||
--policy-source-arn "arn:aws:iam::327082975128:user/<USER>" \
|
||
--action-names cloudformation:CreateStack cloudformation:UpdateStack \
|
||
cloudformation:CreateChangeSet cloudformation:ExecuteChangeSet \
|
||
iam:PassRole sts:AssumeRole \
|
||
--query 'EvaluationResults[].{A:EvalActionName,D:EvalDecision}' --output text
|
||
|
||
# 6. Federated identity surfaces, and root.
|
||
aws iam list-saml-providers --query 'length(SAMLProviderList)'
|
||
aws iam list-open-id-connect-providers --query 'length(OpenIDConnectProviderList)'
|
||
aws sso-admin list-instances --query 'length(Instances)'
|
||
aws iam get-account-summary \
|
||
--query 'SummaryMap.{AccessKeysPresentRoot:AccountAccessKeysPresent,MFA:AccountMFAEnabled}'
|
||
|
||
# 7. The table's OWN policy. ⚠️ NOT VISIBLE IN describe-table — a DynamoDB
|
||
# resource policy needs its own call, and the page publishes a claim about it.
|
||
# A "no policy" answer arrives as a NON-ZERO EXIT with PolicyNotFoundException
|
||
# on stderr, so do not suppress stderr and do not read exit 0 as the result.
|
||
aws dynamodb get-resource-policy \
|
||
--resource-arn 'arn:aws:dynamodb:ca-central-1:327082975128:table/adr-intake-submissions'
|
||
|
||
# 8. Is the account in an AWS Organization? ⚠️ THIS IS WHAT MAKES COMMAND 6's
|
||
# sso-admin ZERO CONCLUSIVE. `list-instances` answers about THIS account, so a
|
||
# member account returns 0 while Identity Center runs in the management
|
||
# account. Not-in-an-org means there is no such management account.
|
||
aws organizations describe-organization
|
||
```
|
||
|
||
**Five user rows and THIRTY-THREE role rows, or the run did not happen.** ⚠️
|
||
**This said "twenty-six" until 2026-09-02, which made an INCOMPLETE sweep pass
|
||
its own acceptance test** — the number matched command 1's `grep -v
|
||
'^AWSServiceRole'`, so an operator following §12 R21's instruction to re-run this
|
||
file would have reproduced the exclusion and got the pass line for it. The page's
|
||
*"every user and every role"* rests on 33 of 33. `adversarial-reviewer`, round 2.
|
||
And for every simulation: **seven decisions per role call, six per CDK-path call,
|
||
two per-resource decisions per assume call** — the counts are the assertion,
|
||
because a call that silently received one bogus action name answers
|
||
`implicitDeny` and reads exactly like a clean row. **Commands 7 and 8 are read by
|
||
their ERROR, not their output**: `PolicyNotFoundException` and
|
||
`AWSOrganizationsNotInUseException` are each the clean result, arriving on stderr
|
||
with a non-zero exit.
|