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zt_wl_028 — Service Fabric cluster uses certificate thumbprint auth instead of Entra ID

Summary

Severity: High · Pillar: Workload · Chain role: ENABLER

Description

Service Fabric clusters with certificateThumbprint-based admin authentication rely on a long-lived certificate in the cluster's configuration. Rotation is painful, private-key extraction from any cluster node gives full admin. Modern Service Fabric supports 'azureActiveDirectory' authentication with group-based admin scoping — switch to it.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 IA-5(1), AC-2(3)
NIST 800-207 Tenet 6 - All resource authentication is dynamic and strictly enforced
CIS Azure
MITRE ATT&CK Technique T1552.004
MITRE ATT&CK Tactic Credential Access
Zero-Trust Tenet Tenet 6
Framework tags nist-800-207, argus-zt

Source

Rule defined at policies/azure/zt/workload/zt_wl_028.rego.

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