📝 Azure Subscription Custom Subscription Administrator Roles exist 🟢

• Contextual name: 📝 Custom Subscription Administrator Roles exist 🟢
• ID: /ce/ca/azure/subscription/custom-subscription-administrator-roles-exist
• Located in: 📁 Azure Subscription

Flags

• 🟢 Policy with categories
• 🟢 Policy with type
• 🟢 Production policy

Our Metadata

• Policy Type: COMPLIANCE_POLICY
• Policy Category:
  • SECURITY

Similar Policies

• Cloud Conformity
  • Subscription Administrator Custom Role

Logic

• 🧠 prod.logic.yaml 🟢
  • 📕 Azure Subscription
  • 🔌 Azure Authorization Role - object.extracts.yaml
  • 🧪 test-data.json

Description

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Description

The principle of least privilege should be followed and only necessary privileges should be assigned instead of allowing full administrative access.

Rationale

Custom roles in Azure with administrative access can obfuscate the permissions granted and introduce complexity and blind spots to the management of privileged identities. For less mature security programs without regular identity audits, the creation of Custom roles should be avoided entirely. For more mature security programs with regular identity audits, Custom Roles should be audited for use and assignment, used minimally, and the principle of least privilege should be observed when granting permissions.

Impact

Subscriptions will need to be handled by Administrators with permissions.

Audit

From Azure Portal

1. From Azure Home select the Portal Menu.
2. Select Subscriptions.
3. Select a subscription.
4. Select Access control (IAM).
5. Select Roles.
6. Click Type and select Custom role from the drop-down menu.
7. Select View next to a role.

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Remediation

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Remediation

From Azure Portal

1. From Azure Home select the Portal Menu.
2. Select Subscriptions.
3. Select a subscription.
4. Select Access control (IAM).
5. Select Roles.
6. Click Type and select Custom role from the drop-down menu.
7. Check the box next to each role which grants subscription administrator privileges.
8. Select Delete.
9. Select Yes.

From Azure CLI

List custom roles:

az role definition list --custom-role-only True

Check for entries with assignableScope of the subscription, and an action of *.

To remove a violating role:

az role definition delete --name <role name>

Note that any role assignments must be removed before a custom role can be deleted. Ensure impact is assessed before deleting a custom role granting subscription administrator privileges.

policy.yaml

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Linked Framework Sections

Section	Sub Sections	Internal Rules	Policies	Flags
💼 CIS Azure v2.1.0 → 💼 1.22 Ensure That No Custom Subscription Administrator Roles Exist - Level 1 (Automated)			1
💼 CIS Azure v3.0.0 → 💼 2.23 Ensure That No Custom Subscription Administrator Roles Exist (Automated)			1
💼 Cloudaware Framework → 💼 Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Management			9