Sometimes, a security recommendation appears in more than one policy initiative. If you have multiple instances of the same recommendation assigned to the same subscription, and you create an exemption for the recommendation, it affects all of the initiatives that you have permission to edit.
If you try to create an exemption for this recommendation, you'll see one of the two following messages:
If you have the necessary permissions to edit both initiatives, you'll see:
This recommendation is included in several policy initiatives: [initiative names separated by comma]. Exemptions will be created on all of them.
If you don't have sufficient permissions on both initiatives, you'll see this message instead:
You have limited permissions to apply the exemption on all the policy initiatives, the exemptions will be created only on the initiatives with sufficient permissions.