Description

Allow users to provide consent for selected permissions when a request is coming from a verified publisher.

Rationale

If Microsoft Entra ID is running as an identity provider for third-party applications, permissions and consent should be limited to administrators or pre-approved. Malicious applications may attempt to exfiltrate data or abuse privileged user accounts.

Impact

Enforcing this setting may create additional requests that administrators need to review.

Audit

From Azure Portal

1. From Azure Home select the Portal Menu.
2. Select Microsoft Entra ID.
3. Under Manage, select Enterprise applications.
4. Under Security, select Consent and permissions.
5. Under Manage, select User consent settings.
6. Under User consent for applications, ensure Allow user consent for apps from verified publishers, for selected permissions is selected.

From PowerShell

Connect-MgGraph (Get-MgPolicyAuthorizationPolicy).DefaultUserRolePermissions | Select-Object -ExpandProperty PermissionGrantPoliciesAssigned

The command should return either ManagePermissionGrantsForSelf.microsoft-user-default-low or a custom app consent policy id if one is in use.

Default Value

By default, User consent for applications is set to Allow user consent for apps.

References

1. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/enterprise-apps/configure-user-consent?pivots=ms-graph#configure-user-consent-to-applications
2. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/mcsb-privileged-access#pa-1-separate-and-limit-highly-privilegedadministrative-users
3. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/mcsb-governance-strategy#gs-2-define-and-implement-enterprise-segmentationseparation-of-duties-strategy
4. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/mcsb-governance-strategy#gs-6-define-and-implement-identity-and-privileged-access-strategy
5. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.graph.identity.signins/get-mgpolicyauthorizationpolicy?view=graph-powershell-1.0