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full_access_as_app Granted To Application

Description

'This detection looks for the full_access_as_app permission being granted to an OAuth application with Admin Consent. This permission provide access to all Exchange mailboxes via the EWS API can could be exploited to access sensitive data by being added to a compromised application. The application granted this permission should be reviewed to ensure that it is absolutely necessary for the applications function. Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/graph/auth-limit-mailbox-access'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.2
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
1h
Query period
1h
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 LoggedByService =~ "Core Directory"
| where Category =~ "ApplicationManagement"
| where OperationName =~ "Consent to application"
| where TargetResources has "full_access_as_app"
| mv-expand TargetResources
| extend OAuthAppName = TargetResources.displayName
| extend ModifiedProperties = TargetResources.modifiedProperties 
| mv-apply Property = ModifiedProperties on 
  (
      where Property.displayName =~ "ConsentContext.isAdminConsent"
      | extend AdminConsent = tostring(Property.newValue)
  )
| mv-apply Property = ModifiedProperties on 
  (
      where Property.displayName =~ "ConsentAction.Permissions"
      | extend Permissions = tostring(Property.newValue)
  )
| mv-apply Property = ModifiedProperties on 
  (
      where Property.displayName =~ "TargetId.ServicePrincipalNames"
      | extend AppId = tostring(Property.newValue)
  )
| mv-apply Property = AdditionalDetails on 
  (
      where Property.key =~ "User-Agent"
      | extend InitiatingUserAgent = replace('"', '', tostring(Property.value))
  )
| project-away Property
| parse Permissions with * "ConsentType: " GrantConsentType ", Scope: " GrantScope1 "," *
| where GrantScope1 =~ "full_access_as_app"
| 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-reorder TimeGenerated, OAuthAppName, AppId, AdminConsent, Permissions, InitiatingUserPrincipalName, InitiatingAadUserId, InitiatingAppName, InitiatingAppServicePrincipalId, InitiatingIpAddress, InitiatingUserAgent, GrantScope1, GrantConsentType
| extend GrantInitiatedBy = tostring(iff(isnotempty(InitiatingUserPrincipalName), InitiatingUserPrincipalName, InitiatingAppName))
| extend Name = split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[0], UPNSuffix = split(InitiatingUserPrincipalName, "@")[1]

Declared entities

AccountIP

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
54e22fed-0ec6-4fb2-8312-2a3809a93f63
Additional source files 2Solutions/Microsoft Entra ID/Analytic Rules/ExchangeFullAccessGrantedToApp.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Microsoft Entra ID/Data/Solution_AAD.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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