Azure RBAC - How to extract all permissions from a role
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Published: 2023-09-13 15:42:08

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title: Azure RBAC - How to extract all permissions from a role
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date: 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC
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One of the most important things in the Cloud (any providers) is IAM permissions, and one of the best practices is to define least privileges for your needs.

In Azure, it’s not an exception, and Microsoft provides lot of built in role to help you to secure your environment. Yes you read it correctly Owner, contributor and Reader are not the only built in roles provides by Microsoft, currently you have 245 role definitions in Azure.

If i take one role, for example **Key Vault Contributor** , you have this definition:

```
{
    "Name": "Key Vault Contributor",
    "Id": "f25e0fa2-a7c8-4377-a976-54943a77a395",
    "IsCustom": false,
    "Description": "Lets you manage key vaults, but not access to them.",
    "Actions": [
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/*/read",
                    "Microsoft.Insights/alertRules/*",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/*",
                    "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/*",
                    "Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/read",
                    "Microsoft.Support/*"
                ],
    "NotActions": [
                       "Microsoft.KeyVault/locations/deletedVaults/purge/action",
                       "Microsoft.KeyVault/hsmPools/*",
                       "Microsoft.KeyVault/managedHsms/*"
                   ],
    "DataActions": [

                    ],
    "NotDataActions": [

                       ],
    "AssignableScopes": [
                             "/"
                         ]
}

```

As you see, you have some permissions with a star in their name, it’s good because when Microsoft add a new feature, they don’t have to update the built in role if it’s not necessary.

But now for security reason, you want block some feature for your users and perhaps some “future” features, so you can’t use the built in role like that, and copy paste in a custom role doesn’t help you to provide the full least privileges you want.

So here a powershell script to create a new custom role, with the same permission as your initial role, but without any star in the permissions:

```
$role = Get-AzRoleDefinition 'Key Vault Contributor'

$role.IsCustom = $true
$role.Name = "Custom $($role.Name)"
$role.Id = ''

$actions = @()
$role.Actions | % { Get-AzProviderOperation $_ | % { $actions += $_.Operation } }
$role.Actions.Clear()
$actions | Select -Unique | % { $role.Actions.Add($_) }

$dataActions = @()
$role.DataActions | % { Get-AzProviderOperation $_ | % { $dataActions += $_.Operation } }
$role.DataActions.Clear()
$dataActions | Select -Unique | % { $role.DataActions.Add($_) }

$notActions = @()
$role.NotActions | % { Get-AzProviderOperation $_ | % { $notActions += $_.Operation } }
$role.NotActions.Clear()
$notActions | Select -Unique | % { $role.NotActions.Add($_) }

$notDataActions = @()
$role.NotDataActions | % { Get-AzProviderOperation $_ | % { $notDataActions += $_.Operation } }
$role.NotDataActions.Clear()
$notDataActions | Select -Unique | % { $role.NotDataActions.Add($_) }

$role | ConvertTo-Json

```

I replace all possible permissions with the full name of the operation. Thanks to the method **Get-AzProviderOperation**!

And now my role is pretty big, but without any surprises for the future

```
{
    "Name": "Custom Key Vault Contributor",
    "Id": "",
    "IsCustom": true,
    "Description": "Lets you manage key vaults, but not access to them.",
    "Actions": [
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/classicAdministrators/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/permissions/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/locks/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/roleDefinitions/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/providerOperations/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/policySetDefinitions/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/policyDefinitions/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/operations/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/classicAdministrators/operationstatuses/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/denyAssignments/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/resourceManagementPrivateLinks/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/resourceManagementPrivateLinks/privateEndpointConnectionProxies/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/resourceManagementPrivateLinks/privateEndpointConnections/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/privateLinkAssociations/read",
                    "Microsoft.Authorization/policyExemptions/read",
                    "Microsoft.Insights/AlertRules/Write",
                    "Microsoft.Insights/AlertRules/Delete",
                    "Microsoft.Insights/AlertRules/Read",
                    "Microsoft.Insights/AlertRules/Activated/Action",
                    "Microsoft.Insights/AlertRules/Resolved/Action",
                    "Microsoft.Insights/AlertRules/Throttled/Action",
                    "Microsoft.Insights/AlertRules/Incidents/Read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/register/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/unregister/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/write",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/delete",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/deploy/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/secrets/read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/secrets/write",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/secrets/delete",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/secrets/backup/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/secrets/purge/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/secrets/update/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/secrets/recover/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/secrets/restore/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/secrets/readMetadata/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/secrets/getSecret/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/secrets/setSecret/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/accessPolicies/write",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/operations/read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/checkNameAvailability/read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/deletedVaults/read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/locations/deletedVaults/read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/locations/deletedVaults/purge/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/locations/operationResults/read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/locations/deleteVirtualNetworkOrSubnets/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/hsmPools/read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/hsmPools/write",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/hsmPools/delete",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/hsmPools/joinVault/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/eventGridFilters/read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/eventGridFilters/write",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/eventGridFilters/delete",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/certificatecas/delete",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/certificatecas/read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/certificatecas/write",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/certificatecontacts/write",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/certificates/delete",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/certificates/read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/certificates/backup/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/certificates/purge/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/certificates/update/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/certificates/create/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/certificates/import/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/certificates/recover/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/certificates/restore/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/write",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/update/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/create/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/import/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/recover/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/restore/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/delete",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/backup/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/purge/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/encrypt/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/decrypt/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/wrap/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/unwrap/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/sign/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/verify/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/storageaccounts/read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/storageaccounts/set/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/storageaccounts/delete",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/storageaccounts/backup/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/storageaccounts/purge/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/storageaccounts/regeneratekey/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/storageaccounts/recover/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/storageaccounts/restore/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/storageaccounts/sas/set/action",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/storageaccounts/sas/delete",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/managedHSMs/read",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/managedHSMs/write",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/managedHSMs/delete",
                    "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/keys/versions/read",
                    "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/read",
                    "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/write",
                    "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/delete",
                    "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/cancel/action",
                    "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/validate/action",
                    "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/whatIf/action",
                    "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/exportTemplate/action",
                    "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/operations/read",
                    "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/operationstatuses/read",
                    "Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/read",
                    "Microsoft.Support/register/action",
                    "Microsoft.Support/checkNameAvailability/action",
                    "Microsoft.Support/supportTickets/read",
                    "Microsoft.Support/supportTickets/write",
                    "Microsoft.Support/services/read",
                    "Microsoft.Support/services/problemClassifications/read",
                    "Microsoft.Support/supportTickets/communications/read",
                    "Microsoft.Support/supportTickets/communications/write",
                    "Microsoft.Support/operationresults/read",
                    "Microsoft.Support/operationsstatus/read",
                    "Microsoft.Support/operations/read"
                ],
    "NotActions": [
                       "Microsoft.KeyVault/locations/deletedVaults/purge/action",
                       "Microsoft.KeyVault/hsmPools/read",
                       "Microsoft.KeyVault/hsmPools/write",
                       "Microsoft.KeyVault/hsmPools/delete",
                       "Microsoft.KeyVault/hsmPools/joinVault/action",
                       "Microsoft.KeyVault/managedHSMs/read",
                       "Microsoft.KeyVault/managedHSMs/write",
                       "Microsoft.KeyVault/managedHSMs/delete"
                   ],
    "DataActions": [

                    ],
    "NotDataActions": [

                       ],
    "AssignableScopes": [
                             "/"
                         ]
}

```