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cis_1_15 — Ensure app registrations do not have high-privilege Graph permissions

Summary

Severity: Critical · Pillar: Identity · Chain role: ANCHOR

Description

Application registrations with high-privilege Microsoft Graph application (Role) permissions can read or write tenant-wide data. These are prime persistence targets.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 AC-6(1)
NIST 800-207 Tenet 6 - Least privilege for non-human identities
CIS Azure 1.15
MITRE ATT&CK Technique T1098.001
MITRE ATT&CK Tactic Persistence
Zero-Trust Tenet Tenet 6
Framework tags nist-800-207, cis-azure-2.0, nist-800-53

Source

Rule defined at policies/azure/cis/identity/cis_1_15.rego.

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