Azure Search Service Managed Identity Not Enabled

ID: azure-search-service-managed-identity-disabled

Severity: medium

Author: princechaddha

Tags: cloud,devops,azure,microsoft,azure-search,azure-cloud-config

Description

Ensure that your Microsoft Azure Search Service instances have system-assigned managed identities enabled in order to allow secure application access to other Azure resources such as storage accounts and key vaults.

YAML Source

id: azure-search-service-managed-identity-disabled
info:
  name: Azure Search Service Managed Identity Not Enabled
  author: princechaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Ensure that your Microsoft Azure Search Service instances have system-assigned managed identities enabled in order to allow secure application access to other Azure resources such as storage accounts and key vaults.
  impact: |
    Not enabling system-assigned managed identities on Azure Search Service instances can lead to insecure access patterns and potential misconfigurations when accessing other Azure resources.
  remediation: |
    Enable system-assigned managed identities on your Azure Search Service instances to secure access to Azure resources.
  reference:
    - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-managed-identities
  tags: cloud,devops,azure,microsoft,azure-search,azure-cloud-config

flow: |
  code(1);
  for (let ResourceGroupName of iterate(template.resourceGroupNames)) {
    set("resourceGroup", ResourceGroupName);
    code(2);
    for (let SearchServiceName of iterate(template.searchServiceNames)) {
      set("name", SearchServiceName);
      code(3);
    }
  }

self-contained: true
code:
  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      az group list --query "[].name"

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: resourceGroupNames
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[]'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      az search service list --resource-group "$resourceGroup" --query '[].{Name:name}'

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: searchServiceNames
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[]'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      az search service show --name "$name" --resource-group "$resourceGroup" --query '{"ManagedIdentity": identity}'

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - '"ManagedIdentity": null'

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'name + " in " + resourceGroup + " does not have managed identity enabled"'
# digest: 490a0046304402201360a84898fed0248b9f87d32f7e55a7370e17a2a768a39ecc8f00681cb0cdfa02201a3ae06fa109ac00c8dd71e3158ddf8d616870f5b315d1d98fc9ea05cd2cdf34:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "cloud/azure/search/azure-search-service-managed-identity-disabled.yaml"

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