Service Principal Assigned Privileged Role
Detects a privileged role being added to a Service Principal. Ensure that any assignment to a Service Principal is valid and appropriate - Service Principals should not be assigned to very highly privileged roles…
Description
Detects a privileged role being added to a Service Principal. Ensure that any assignment to a Service Principal is valid and appropriate - Service Principals should not be assigned to very highly privileged roles such as Global Admin. Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/security-operations-privileged-accounts#changes-to-privileged-accounts
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- IaaSIdentity ProviderOffice SuiteSaaS
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source product
- azureactivedirectory
- Log source service
- auditlogs
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 84cccc86-5c11-4b3a-aca6-7c8f738ed0f7
- Tagged by the source as
- PrivilegeEscalationIdentitySecurity - Others
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Written by
- Published
- Sep 2, 2026
- Version
- 1