Permissions on the Loose: Measuring Overprivilege in Real-World Serverless Applications
Large-scale measurement of real-world serverless applications reveals pervasive overprivilege in function permissions, quantifying a risk that least-privilege policies in cloud-native environments often fail to address.
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arXiv:2607.02875v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Serverless computing has seen rapid adoption in cloud deployments, yet the security implications of its service-oriented programming model remain poorly understood. Distributed, modular, and heterogeneous applications complicate the specification of precise security policies. Role-based access control solutions such as Identity and Access Management (IAM) already exhibit pervasive misconfiguration problems, and the multiplicity of functions, s
Editorial Analysis
Overprivileged serverless functions expand the blast radius of any compromise; this empirical evidence can justify budget for automated permission-scoping tooling.
Audit IAM policies of all serverless functions for excess permissions and deploy automated least-privilege enforcement tooling.
Serverless overprivilege is measurably widespread; automated permission scoping reduces cloud breach exposure.
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