Chapter 7: Exploiting Owner and Privileged Azure AD Role Permissions

In the first chapter of this book, we made a distinction between the Azure AD roles and the Azure RBAC roles. We mentioned that Azure AD roles are used to manage access to Azure AD resources and operations, such as user accounts or group creation, and password resets, while Azure RBAC roles are used to manage access to Azure resources such as subscriptions, storage accounts, and SQL databases. For the most part, both services have separate scope boundaries. In general, an Azure AD role assignment does not grant access to manage Azure resources and an Azure RBAC role assignment does not grant access to manage Azure AD resources.

Bridging the gap from subscription Owner up to the root management group, or an Azure AD administrative role, or to on-premises targets, can be a difficult task. Likewise, moving laterally from Azure AD to Azure subscription resources could be tricky. In this chapter, we will focus on different...