Amazon Inspector Public Bucket Access Denied

Question

We have an 'unauthorised API call' alarm that is being tripped by Amazon Inspector.
It's attempting to download windows.zip from an AWS Public Bucket. Here is a snippet of the Cloudwatch log:-

```
    "eventSource": "s3.amazonaws.com",
    "eventName": "GetObject",
    "awsRegion": "ap-southeast-2",
    "sourceIPAddress": "Redacted IP Address",
    "userAgent": "[aws-sdk-go/1.44.78 (go1.18.3; windows; amd64) amazon-ssm-agent/]",
    "errorCode": "AccessDenied",
    "errorMessage": "Access Denied",
    "requestParameters": {
        "bucketName": "aws-ssm-document-attachments-ap-southeast-2",
        "Host": "aws-ssm-document-attachments-ap-southeast-2.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com",
        "key": "e89/810622359321/AmazonInspector2-InspectorSsmPlugin!d6f98620-d464-4b63-ab7c-e10b41c673c6/20/windows.zip"
    },
```
We've setup an Instance role and attached permissions policy as specified here:-
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/ssm-agent-minimum-s3-permissions.html

In fact, I added GetBucket* and ListBuckets at the Bucket level as well just in case that was the issue.

When I look in Systems Manager, Fleet Manager it showed failures invoking AmazonInspector2-ConfigureInspectorSsmPlugin and AmazonInspector2-InvokeInspectorSsmPlugin for the instance in question.

![AmazonInspector2-ConfigureInspectorSsmPlugin and AmazonInspector2-InvokeInspectorSsmPlugin Failure](/media/postImages/original/IMWMvCNigNQS-bPc3prIzs5g)

We are getting quite a few of these 'Access Denied' errors, but I have allocated the listed permissions. I also checked that my VPC Endpoint Policy does not restrict access.

The only issue might be there is a Service Control Policy that is denying access. Has anybody got any other insights as to what might be causing this?

kentrad · Answer

Try the [Policy Simulator](https://policysim.aws.amazon.com/) on the role. In the console, find the role, click on the Simulate button and then set up the simulator for the GetObject and set the Object key. This may tell you what is blocking access or at least eliminate some policies.

Andre Pereira · Answer

Hello, I just came accross this issue too, I did some digging on the AWS Systems Manager > Run Command to see more details about it and it is saying wrong Platform.

Upon researching for the Document I noticed that there are multiple Documents for different Platform, so it could be that.

"AmazonInspector2-InvokeInspectorSsmPlugin" -> Windows Platform
"AmazonInspector2-InvokeInspectorSsmPluginLinux" -> Linux Platform

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