azure-keyvault-update-unalerted: Azure Key Vault Update Alert Not Configured

2025-08-01 Azure Key Vault PoC Public

Description

Ensure that an Azure activity log alert is fired whenever "Update Key Vault" events are triggered within your Microsoft Azure cloud account. Activity log alerts get triggered when a new activity log event that matches the condition specified in the alert configuration occurs. For this conformity rule, the matched condition is "Whenever the Activity Log has an event with Category='Administrative', Signal name='Update Key Vault (vaults)'".

PoC

id: azure-keyvault-update-unalerted
info:
  name: Azure Key Vault Update Alert Not Configured
  author: princechaddha
  severity: high
  description: |
    Ensure that an Azure activity log alert is fired whenever "Update Key Vault" events are triggered within your Microsoft Azure cloud account. Activity log alerts get triggered when a new activity log event that matches the condition specified in the alert configuration occurs. For this conformity rule, the matched condition is "Whenever the Activity Log has an event with Category='Administrative', Signal name='Update Key Vault (vaults)'".
  impact: |
    Not configuring alerts for "Update Key Vault" events can allow unauthorized or unwanted changes to Key Vault resources to go unnoticed, thereby increasing security risks.
  remediation: |
    Configure alert rules to monitor and notify of "Update Key Vault" events by setting the alert condition to "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/write" and ensuring that an action group is attached for managing notifications.
  reference:
    - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/platform/alerts-activity-log
  tags: cloud,devops,azure,microsoft,keyvault,azure-cloud-config

flow: |
  code(1);
  for (let AlertData of iterate(template.alertList)) {
    set("id", AlertData);
    code(2);
  }

self-contained: true
code:
  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      az monitor activity-log alert list --output json --query '[?(enabled==`true`)].id'

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: alertList
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[]'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      az monitor activity-log alert show --ids "$id" --query 'condition'

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - '"field": "operationName"'

      - type: word
        words:
          - "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/write"
        negative: true

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'id + " does not have the correct alert configuration for Update Key Vault events"'
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100ffcc0dc874891949204b8d35c1cae0c96f9aa01a1444042ed76514c151c53a1202207d6c2a217f40549779ef486608bea055eb5d1b533909b5ee22026eac4b8cacc1:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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