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zt_data_031 — Storage Data Lake Gen2 container has no ACL-based access control

Summary

Severity: Medium · Pillar: Data · Chain role: ENABLER

Description

Data Lake Gen2 containers use either RBAC (coarse, at container scope) or POSIX ACLs (fine, per-path). Containers with no ACLs configured fall back to blanket RBAC — any user with Storage Blob Data Reader sees every path, even folders meant for specific teams. For lake zones containing cross-team or regulated data, ACLs at the path level are expected. Note: requires Hierarchical Namespace enabled on the account.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 AC-3(7), AC-6
NIST 800-207 Tenet 4 - Access to individual enterprise resources is granted on a per-session basis
CIS Azure
MITRE ATT&CK Technique T1005
MITRE ATT&CK Tactic Collection
Zero-Trust Tenet Tenet 4
Framework tags nist-800-207, argus-zt

Source

Rule defined at policies/azure/zt/data/zt_data_031.rego.

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