Posture check · Workload and agent identity
App service principal holds a Tier 0 admin role (T1098.003)
This app's service principal holds a Tier 0 admin role, such as Global Administrator, either assigned or eligible in Privileged Identity Management.
Why it matters
Whoever holds this app's credential, or the vendor's, acts with the role and can take over the tenant. An app can activate an eligible role as easily as it uses an assigned one.
How GraphnAI finds it
It runs after every sync, on each connected domain or tenant on its own. It applies to Microsoft Entra ID.
It reads:
- The directory attributes
servicePrincipalType,appOwnerClass,appOwnerOrganizationIdandverifiedPublisher - 4 more GraphnAI analyses
Tiered Fidelity™ level: Theoretical
Every finding from this check carries the Theoretical level.
- TheoreticalThis checkConfigured in the directory. Nothing else checked.
- ConstrainedA constraint on it has been checked.
- ValidatedTelemetry has seen it in use.
How Select Fire™ fixes it
How to fix it
Remove this admin role if no one in your organization assigned it on purpose. If the app might have been misused, review what it changed while it held the role.
What Select Fire changes
Select Fire opens from the finding and simulates each change on your live graph before anything changes in your directory.
- Remove directory role assignment For user accounts, groups and service principals.Manual: you approve each change one at a time, and no automation runs it.
The app loses the admin role at once. Anything it does with that role stops working.
By hand: In Microsoft Entra, open Roles and administrators, find the role and remove the app's assignment. For another organization's app, disable the service principal first; don't delete it, because deleting removes consent.
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