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Microsoft Entra ID Role Management Permission Grant
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'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.1.1
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 2h
- Query period
- 2h
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Connectors
Data types
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
AuditLogs
| where Category =~ "ApplicationManagement" and LoggedByService =~ "Core Directory" and OperationName in~ ("Add delegated permission grant", "Add app role assignment to service principal")
| mv-apply TargetResource = TargetResources on
(
where TargetResource.type =~ "ServicePrincipal" and array_length(TargetResource.modifiedProperties) > 0 and isnotnull(TargetResource.displayName)
| extend props = TargetResource.modifiedProperties
)
| mv-apply Property = props on
(
where Property.displayName in~ ("AppRole.Value","DelegatedPermissionGrant.Scope")
| extend DisplayName = tostring(Property.displayName), PermissionGrant = trim('"',tostring(Property.newValue))
)
| where PermissionGrant has "RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory"
| mv-apply Property = props on
(
where Property.displayName =~ "ServicePrincipal.DisplayName"
| extend TargetAppDisplayName = trim('"',tostring(Property.newValue))
)
| mv-apply Property = props on
(
where Property.displayName =~ "ServicePrincipal.ObjectID"
| extend TargetAppServicePrincipalId = trim('"',tostring(Property.newValue))
)
| extend InitiatingAppName = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.displayName)
| extend InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId = tostring(InitiatedBy.app.servicePrincipalId)
| extend InitiatingUserPrincipalName = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.userPrincipalName)
| extend InitiatingAadUserId = tostring(InitiatedBy.user.id)
| extend InitiatingIpAddress = tostring(iff(isnotempty(InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress), InitiatedBy.user.ipAddress, InitiatedBy.app.ipAddress))
| project TimeGenerated, OperationName, Result, PermissionGrant, TargetAppDisplayName, TargetAppServicePrincipalId, InitiatingAppName, InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId,
InitiatingUserPrincipalName, InitiatingAadUserId, InitiatingIpAddress, TargetResources, AdditionalDetails, CorrelationId
| extend InitiatingAccountName = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[0]), InitiatingAccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[1])
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
1ff56009-db01-4615-8211-d4fda21da02d
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC