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External Upstream Source Added to Azure DevOps Feed
Description
'The detection looks for new external sources added to an Azure DevOps feed. An allow list can be customized to explicitly allow known good sources.
An attacker could look to add a malicious feed in order to inject malicious packages into a build pipeline.'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.4
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1d
- Query period
- 1d
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
// Add any known allowed sources and source locations to the filter below (the NuGet Gallery has been added here as an example).
let allowed_sources = dynamic(["NuGet Gallery"]);
let allowed_locations = dynamic(["https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json"]);
ADOAuditLogs
// Look for feeds created or modified at either the organization or project level
| where OperationName matches regex "Artifacts.Feed.(Org|Project).Modify"
| where Details has "UpstreamSources, added"
| extend FeedName = tostring(Data.FeedName)
| extend FeedId = tostring(Data.FeedId)
| extend UpstreamsAdded = Data.UpstreamsAdded
// As multiple feeds may be added expand these out
| mv-expand UpstreamsAdded
// Only focus on external feeds
| where UpstreamsAdded.UpstreamSourceType !~ "internal"
| extend SourceLocation = tostring(UpstreamsAdded.Location)
| extend SourceName = tostring(UpstreamsAdded.Name)
// Exclude sources and locations in the allow list
| where SourceLocation !in (allowed_locations) and SourceName !in (allowed_sources)
| extend SourceProtocol = tostring(UpstreamsAdded.Protocol)
| extend SourceStatus = tostring(UpstreamsAdded.Status)
| project-reorder TimeGenerated, OperationName, ScopeDisplayName, ProjectName, FeedName, SourceName, SourceLocation, SourceProtocol, ActorUPN, UserAgent, IpAddress
| extend timestamp = TimeGenerated
| extend AccountName = tostring(split(ActorUPN, "@")[0]), AccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(ActorUPN, "@")[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.
- File
- Solutions/AzureDevOpsAuditing/Analytic Rules/ExternalUpstreamSourceAddedtoAzureDevOpsFeed.yaml ↗
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
adc32a33-1cd6-46f5-8801-e3ed8337885f
Additional source files 3
Solutions/AzureDevOpsAuditing/Analytic Rules/ExternalUpstreamSourceAddedtoAzureDevOpsFeed.yamlsource ↗Detections/AzureDevOpsAuditing/ExternalUpstreamSourceAddedtoAzureDevOpsFeed.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/AzureDevOpsAuditing/Data/Solution_AzureDevOpsAuditing.jsonsolution-membership ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC