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zt_wl_030 — Container App Environment is zone-redundant but has no managed identity

Summary

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

Description

Container App Environments hosting production workloads should authenticate to dependent services (Key Vault, Storage, ACR) via managed identity, not static secrets in env vars. An Environment without a UserAssigned identity forces every Container App inside it to either bake secrets into manifests or fetch them from a shared SAS token — both fail-open designs.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 IA-5(1)
NIST 800-207 Tenet 6 - All resource authentication is dynamic and strictly enforced
CIS Azure
MITRE ATT&CK Technique T1552
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_030.rego.

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