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IAM Vulnerable - Assessing the AWS Assessment Tools

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Summary

Part two of the IAM Vulnerable series reviews AWS privesc discovery tools, PMapper, AWSPX, Pacu's iam__privesc_scan, and Cloudsplaining, finding none can catch all paths without false positives.
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