IAM misconfigurations

Azure principal with privilege escalation permissions

Platform(s)
Compliance Frameworks

Brazilian General Data Protection (LGPD), CCM-CSA, CCPA, cis_8, CPRA, Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Best Practices, essential_8_au, GDPR, HITRUST, iso_27001_2022, iso_27002_2022, Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark, Mitre ATT&CK, New Zealand Information Security Manual, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, PDPA, pipeda, UK Cyber Essentials

Description

Principal has a role assignment that allows privilege escalation. If the principal will be compromised, the entire account can be compromised.