Storage Bucket Delete Permission Granted to Non-Admin Identity for Bucket Hijacking

Ibrahim Saud@tektrix

•updated Jun 23, 2026•2•0•7

Detects broad assignments of administrative roles or specific deletion permissions for cloud storage buckets in GCP, AWS, and Azure. This includes granting 'storage.admin', 'storage.objectAdmin', or 'storage.buckets.delete' in GCP, 's3:DeleteBucket' in AWS IAM policies, or 'Storage Account Contributor'/'Owner' roles in Azure. Such assignments to service accounts or non-administrative identities could enable 'Universal Bucket Hijacking' or unauthorized data deletion.