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🔷 Abusing Azure Hybrid Workers for Privilege Escalation - Part 1

Azure Hybrid Workers can be configured to use Automation Account "Run as" accounts, which can expose the credentials to anyone with local administrator access to the Hybrid Worker. Since "Run as" accounts are typically subscription contributors, this can lead to privilege escalation from multiple Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) roles.

https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical/cloud-penetration-testing/abusing-azure-hybrid-workers-for-privilege-escalation

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NetSPI Abusing Azure Hybrid Workers for Privilege Escalation – Part 1 Configure Windows VMs in Azure for Hybrid Workers with "Run as" certificates. Check out this post for step-by-step guidance and tips.
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