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AWS gameliftservers high security documentation change

Service: gameliftservers · 2025-08-13 · Security-related high

File: gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.md

Summary

Modified IAM policy examples with incorrect action/resource syntax and added JSON markers

Security assessment

Changes introduce invalid IAM syntax (e.g., ':ListFleets' instead of 'gamelift:ListFleets' and malformed resource ARNs). This could lead to policy misconfiguration, resulting in unintended permissions. Concrete evidence of security risk due to broken policy examples.

Diff

diff --git a/gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.md b/gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.md
index 68fa42df6..eddb26b1c 100644
--- a//gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.md
+++ b//gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.md
@@ -110,0 +111,6 @@ This policy grants the user permissions to add, update, and delete queue destina
+JSON
+    
+
+****
+    
+    
@@ -138,0 +146,6 @@ You can use conditions in your identity-based policy to control access to Amazon
+JSON
+    
+
+****
+    
+    
@@ -146 +159 @@ You can use conditions in your identity-based policy to control access to Amazon
-                "Action": "gamelift:ListFleets",
+                "Action": ":ListFleets",
@@ -152,2 +165,2 @@ You can use conditions in your identity-based policy to control access to Amazon
-                "Action": "gamelift:DescribeFleetAttributes",
-                "Resource": "arn:aws:gamelift:*:*:fleet/*",
+                "Action": ":DescribeFleetAttributes",
+                "Resource": "arn:aws::*:*:fleet/*",
@@ -155 +168 @@ You can use conditions in your identity-based policy to control access to Amazon
-                    "StringEquals": {"gamelift:ResourceTag/Owner": "${aws:username}"}
+                    "StringEquals": {":ResourceTag/Owner": "${aws:username}"}
@@ -164,0 +179,6 @@ After you integrate your game server with Amazon GameLift Servers, upload the bu
+JSON
+    
+
+****
+    
+