CHAIN-162 — Traffic Manager with HTTP (unencrypted) endpoint in pool

Summary

Severity: Medium · Likelihood: Medium · Logic: ALL

Why this chain matters

Traffic Manager profile includes at least one endpoint reachable over HTTP (port 80) not HTTPS. Failover to that endpoint drops TLS — users experience plaintext traffic to a 'secure' site during regional failures.

Component rules

This chain fires when its trigger conditions are met by the following rules. Click any rule to see its detection logic and compliance mappings.

Rule ID	Role
zt_int_007	Trigger
zt_net_002	Trigger

Attack walkthrough

Step 1 — Primary endpoint fails; failover activates HTTP-only endpoint.

Actor: Infrastructure event
MITRE ATT&CK: T1499
Enabled by: zt_int_007

Attacker gain: User traffic routed to plaintext endpoint.

Step 2 — Sniff or MITM user sessions.

Actor: On-path attacker
MITRE ATT&CK: T1557
Enabled by: zt_net_002

Attacker gain: Credential capture during failover.

Blast radius

Initial access	Network path + failover event.
Max privilege	Credential theft.
Data at risk	Session cookies, auth headers
Services at risk	Traffic Manager consumers

How the logic works

The chain fires only when every rule above has at least one finding in the current scan. Missing any one rule breaks the chain — so remediating any single step disrupts the attack path.