---
id: 8083
title: "Azure Privilege Escalation Using Managed Identities"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/cloud-pentesting/azure-privilege-escalation-using-managed-identities/"
published_at: "2020-02-20T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["cloud", "cloud-security", "privilege-escalation", "azure", "pentest", "managed-identity"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8083"
lang: en
---

# Azure Privilege Escalation Using Managed Identities

## Summary

Shows how Azure VM managed identities with excessive permissions enable privilege escalation: anyone with command execution on a VM can request its token and act with the identity's assigned roles.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2020-02-20T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/cloud-pentesting/azure-privilege-escalation-using-managed-identities/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8083