Enable Trusted Microsoft Services access for Key Vault
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Ensure that, Allow trusted Microsoft services to bypass this firewall, exception is enabled within your Azure Key Vault network settings in order to grant vault access to trusted Azure cloud services.Risk Level
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SecurityCompliance Standards
CBPTriage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
To remediate the misconfiguration of enabling Trusted Microsoft Services access for Key Vault in AZURE, you can follow the below steps:
- Login to the AZURE portal (https://portal.azure.com/) using your credentials.
- Navigate to the Key Vault service from the left-hand side menu.
- Select the Key Vault for which you want to enable Trusted Microsoft Services access.
- Click on the “Access policies” option from the left-hand side menu.
- Click on the ”+ Add Access Policy” button to add a new access policy.
- In the “Add access policy” blade, select “Azure Key Vault” for “Configure from template”.
- In the “Secret permissions” section, select the permissions that you want to grant to the Trusted Microsoft Services.
- In the “Select principal” section, select “Microsoft.AzureServices.AppAuthentication” as the principal.
- Click on the “Add” button to add the access policy.
- Click on the “Save” button to save the changes.
Using CLI
Using CLI
To remediate the misconfiguration “Enable Trusted Microsoft Services access for Key Vault” for Azure using Azure CLI, you can follow these steps:Step 1: Open the Azure CLI and login to your account.Step 2: Run the following command to enable Trusted Microsoft Services access for Key Vault:Note: Replace
<key_vault_name> with the name of your Key Vault and <resource_group_name> with the name of your resource group.Step 3: After running the above command, you will receive a response that confirms the update. Verify that the enabledForTemplateDeployment property is set to true.Step 4: You have now successfully remediated the misconfiguration “Enable Trusted Microsoft Services access for Key Vault”.Using Python
Using Python
To remediate the misconfiguration “Enable Trusted Microsoft Services access for Key Vault” in Azure using Python, follow these steps:This code will check if Trusted Microsoft Services access is already enabled for the Key Vault and, if not, add it to the access policies.
- Import the necessary libraries:
- Set up a Service Principal account with the necessary permissions to access the Key Vault. You will need to provide the
tenant_id,client_id, andclient_secretvalues.
- Connect to the Azure Resource Management API and retrieve the Key Vault resource.
- Check if the Trusted Microsoft Services access is already enabled for the Key Vault.
- If Trusted Microsoft Services access is not enabled, add it to the Key Vault access policies.