Administrator Role Assigned to an Okta User
editAdministrator Role Assigned to an Okta User
editIdentifies when an administrator role is assigned to an Okta user. An adversary may attempt to assign an administrator role to an Okta user in order to assign additional permissions to a user account and maintain access to their target’s environment.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- filebeat-*
- logs-okta*
Severity: medium
Risk score: 47
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Okta
- SecOps
- Monitoring
- Continuous Monitoring
Version: 102 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.6.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Potential false positives
editAdministrator roles may be assigned to Okta users by a Super Admin user. Verify that the behavior was expected. Exceptions can be added to this rule to filter expected behavior.
Investigation guide
editRule query
editevent.dataset:okta.system and event.action:user.account.privilege.grant
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
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Technique:
- Name: Account Manipulation
- ID: T1098
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/
Rule version history
edit- Version 102 (8.6.0 release)
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- Version 100 (8.5.0 release)
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- Version 6 (8.4.0 release)
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- Version 4 (7.13.0 release)
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- Version 3 (7.12.0 release)
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- Version 2 (7.11.2 release)
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