25 April 2026 - 12:18
Category: IT Fail
Entra Admins Get A Bit Too Friendly
Microsoft Entra let lowly admins become digital gods, which is just what we needed on a Thursday. The concept of least privilege remains a charming but neglected theory.
Source: cybersecuritynews.com
The Full Story
It seems Microsoft Entra decided that the Agent ID Administrator role didn't have quite enough power, so it kindly allowed them to hijack high-privileged service principals across the entire tenant. Every tenant was potentially at risk of being commandeered by an over-ambitious administrator with a penchant for chaos. While Redmond claims to have deployed a fix across the cloud, one might protect oneself by actually checking if their identity architecture is built on sand before the next "oops" moment occurs.