Uniqkey - Self-granted privilege or access change
Identifies privilege, sharing or group-membership changes in Uniqkey where the actor and the target of the change are the same person. In a healthy administrative process, access changes are made by a different…
Description
Identifies privilege, sharing or group-membership changes in Uniqkey where the actor and the target of the change are the same person. In a healthy administrative process, access changes are made by a different administrator, so a self-referential grant is a strong indicator of insider privilege escalation or a compromised administrator account expanding its own reach.
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
- uniqkeyeventsconnector
- Log source service
- uniqkeyevents_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
- 4b1fefb3-419a-4bbe-8a74-ef8288a8d8d0
- 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