---
id: 7939
title: "Abusing Azure Hybrid Workers for Privilege Escalation – Part 2: An Azure PrivEsc Story"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/cloud-pentesting/abusing-azure-hybrid-workers-part-2/"
published_at: "2022-04-14T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["cloud", "privilege-escalation", "azure", "rbac", "cloud-pentesting", "automation-accounts", "hybrid-workers"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/7939"
lang: en
---

# Abusing Azure Hybrid Workers for Privilege Escalation – Part 2: An Azure PrivEsc Story

## Summary

Discover how an Azure user with the Subscription Reader role can compromise credentials or certificates from Automation Accounts and escalate to a Contributor level role.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2022-04-14T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/cloud-pentesting/abusing-azure-hybrid-workers-part-2/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/7939