Microsoft Entra ID Role Management Permission Grant
'Identifies when the Microsoft Graph RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory (Delegated or Application) permission is granted to a service principal. This permission allows an application to read and manage the role-based…
Description
Identifies when the Microsoft Graph RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory (Delegated or Application) permission is granted to a service principal. This permission allows an application to read and manage the role-based access control (RBAC) settings for your company's directory. An adversary could use this permission to add an Microsoft Entra ID object to an Admin directory role and escalate privileges. Ref : https://docs.microsoft.com/graph/permissions-reference#role-management-permissions Ref : https://docs.microsoft.com/graph/api/directoryrole-post-members?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- IaaSIdentity ProviderOffice SuiteSaaS
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques 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
- 1ff56009-db01-4615-8211-d4fda21da02d
- Tagged by the source as
- ImpactPersistence
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1