Azure AD End-User Consent Blocked for Risk-Based Risky App Exceptions

Alerts when Azure end-user consent is blocked due to risk-based consent for risky apps.

FreeReviewedSigma · Medium · v5

Product: azure
Service: auditlogs
Author: Bailey Bercik '@baileybercik', Mark Morowczynski '@markmorow' (SigmaHQ), DRL 1.1
Published: 2022-07-10
Updated: 2026-07-31

ATT&CK techniques

Cred Access

Recon
Resource Dev
Initial Access
Execution
Persistence
Priv Esc
Defense Evasion
Cred Access
- T1528Steal Application Access Token
Discovery
Lateral Movement
Collection
C2
Exfiltration
Impact

What it detects

This rule matches Azure audit log events where end-user consent is blocked due to risk-based consent policy, specifically when the failure reason indicates consent was blocked for risky apps exceptions. Blocking consent is significant because it prevents potentially malicious or high-risk app access, while also providing attackers a visibility point into whether their attempted consent flows are being denied. Telemetry relied on is Azure audit log data, using the failure status reason value 'Microsoft.online.Security.userConsentBlockedForRiskyAppsExceptions'.

Reporting behind it

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Azure AD End-User Consent Blocked for Risk-Based Risky App Exceptions

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Changelog

v5
Candidate ingested via manual entry.2026-07-31
v4
Candidate ingested via manual entry.2026-07-31
v3
Candidate ingested via manual entry.2026-07-31
v2
Candidate ingested via manual entry.2026-07-31
v1
No changelog recorded for this version.2026-07-30

Detection content is published as a reviewed draft. Tune thresholds and exclusions against your own telemetry before enabling this rule for alerting.

azure-ad-end-user-consent-blocked-for-risky-apps-by-risk-based-consent-7091372f

title: Azure AD End-User Consent Blocked for Risk-Based Risky App Exceptions
id: 8f301b21-31c9-45b5-a8c9-18021752d3c0
status: test
description: This rule matches Azure audit log events where end-user consent is blocked due to risk-based consent policy, specifically when the failure reason indicates consent was blocked for risky apps exceptions. Blocking consent is significant because it prevents potentially malicious or high-risk app access, while also providing attackers a visibility point into whether their attempted consent flows are being denied. Telemetry relied on is Azure audit log data, using the failure status reason value 'Microsoft.online.Security.userConsentBlockedForRiskyAppsExceptions'.
references:
  - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/architecture/security-operations-applications#end-user-stopped-due-to-risk-based-consent
  - https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/master/rules/cloud/azure/audit_logs/azure_app_end_user_consent_blocked.yml
author: Bailey Bercik '@baileybercik', Mark Morowczynski '@markmorow', Huntrule Team
date: 2022-07-10
tags:
  - attack.credential-access
  - attack.t1528
logsource:
  product: azure
  service: auditlogs
detection:
  selection:
    failure_status_reason: Microsoft.online.Security.userConsentBlockedForRiskyAppsExceptions
  condition: selection
falsepositives:
  - Unknown
level: medium
license: DRL-1.1
related:
  - id: 7091372f-623c-4293-bc37-20c32b3492be
    type: derived

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