{"id":236936,"date":"2026-04-27T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/microsoft-patched-an-agent-only-role-that-was-not\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:10:37","slug":"microsoft-patched-an-agent-only-role-that-was-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/microsoft-patched-an-agent-only-role-that-was-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft patched an \u2018agent-only\u2019 role that was not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4163708\/microsoft-patched-an-agent-only-role-that-was-not.html\">Microsoft patched an \u2018agent-only\u2019 role that was not<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4163708\/microsoft-patched-an-agent-only-role-that-was-not.html\">https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4163708\/microsoft-patched-an-agent-only-role-that-was-not.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-27 08:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.csoonline.com\">www.csoonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impact depends on the privileges assigned to the targeted service principal,\u201d the researchers said. \u201cIn environments where service principals are widely used or hold elevated permissions, this can lead to significant escalation. Tenant posture can further influence the impact, for example in cases of broadly consented applications or permissive configurations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researchers noted that Agent ID Administrator is fairly new and isn\u2019t in wide use yet, but the service principal-based escalation path is. \u201cAbout 99% of tenants have at least one privileged service principal (not necessarily agent-related),\u201d they said. Of them, more than half use agent identities averaging around 100 per tenant, creating a \u201creal risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) told Silverfort that an internal fix was fully rolled out by April 9, 2026, requiring no further user action. Researchers still published a few recommendations along with detection steps to help users identify and respond to similar patterns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4163708\/microsoft-patched-an-agent-only-role-that-was-not.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft patched an \u2018agent-only\u2019 role that was not https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4163708\/microsoft-patched-an-agent-only-role-that-was-not.html Publish Date: 2026-04-27 08:35:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4163708-0-16692300-1777293328-shutterstock_2662877349.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236938,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236936\/revisions\/236938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}