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Threat Essentials - User Assigned Privileged Role
Description
'Identifies when a new privileged role is assigned to a user. Any account eligible for a role is now being given privileged access. If the assignment is unexpected or into a role that isn't the responsibility of the account holder, investigate.
Ref : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/security-operations-privileged-accounts#things-to-monitor-1'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.3
- 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 =~ "RoleManagement"
| where AADOperationType in~ ("Assign", "AssignEligibleRole")
| where ActivityDisplayName has_any ("Add eligible member to role", "Add member to role")
| mv-expand TargetResources
| mv-expand TargetResources.modifiedProperties
| extend displayName_ = tostring(TargetResources_modifiedProperties.displayName)
| where displayName_ =~ "Role.DisplayName"
| extend RoleName = tostring(parse_json(tostring(TargetResources_modifiedProperties.newValue)))
| where RoleName contains "Admin"
| extend InitiatingApp = tostring(parse_json(tostring(InitiatedBy.app)).displayName)
| extend Initiator = iif(isnotempty(InitiatingApp), InitiatingApp, tostring(parse_json(tostring(InitiatedBy.user)).userPrincipalName))
| extend Target = tostring(TargetResources.userPrincipalName)
| summarize by bin(TimeGenerated, 1h), OperationName, RoleName, Target, Initiator, Result
| extend InitiatorName=split(Initiator, "@")[0], InitiatorUPNSuffix=split(Initiator, "@")[1]
| extend TargetName=split(Target, "@")[0], TargetUPNSuffix=split(Target, "@")[1]
Declared entities
Related content
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Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
b09795c9-8dce-47ab-8f75-5a4afb78ef0c
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC