Tailscale: User role elevated to admin or owner
Identifies when a user's tailnet role changes from a lower-privilege role to admin, network-admin, or owner between consecutive snapshots. Privilege escalation is a high-value attacker objective and warrants prompt…
Description
Identifies when a user's tailnet role changes from a lower-privilege role to admin, network-admin, or owner between consecutive snapshots. Privilege escalation is a high-value attacker objective and warrants prompt review.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- ContainersESXiIaaSIdentity ProviderLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteSaaSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
- Log source product
- tailscaleccf
- Log source service
- tailscale_users_cl
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
- d3c4e5f6-3456-7890-12ab-cdef12345003
- Tagged by the source as
- PersistencePrivilegeEscalation
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1