Microsoft Entra ID Elevated Access to User Access Administrator

Last updated 14 days ago on 2025-05-22
Created 14 days ago on 2025-05-22

About

Identifies when a user has elevated their access to User Access Administrator for their Azure Resources. The User Access Administrator role allows users to manage user access to Azure resources, including the ability to assign roles and permissions. Adversaries may target an Entra ID Global Administrator or other privileged role to elevate their access to User Access Administrator, which can lead to further privilege escalation and unauthorized access to sensitive resources. This is a New Terms rule that only signals if the user principal name has not been seen doing this activity in the last 14 days.
Tags
Domain: CloudData Source: AzureData Source: Microsoft Entra IDData Source: Microsoft Entra ID Audit LogsUse Case: Identity and Access AuditTactic: Privilege EscalationLanguage: kuery
Severity
medium
Risk Score
47
MITRE ATT&CK™

Privilege Escalation (TA0004)(opens in a new tab or window)

License
Elastic License v2(opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
New Terms Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
filebeat-*logs-azure.auditlogs-*
Related Integrations

azure(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
event.dataset: azure.auditlogs
    and azure.auditlogs.operation_name: "User has elevated their access to User Access Administrator for their Azure Resources"
    and event.outcome: "success"

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Microsoft Entra ID Elevated Access to User Access Administrator in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(opens in a new tab or window).