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  Publicly accessible Azure Container App has an assigned managed identity that
  can escalate privileges to obtain administrator-equivalent RBAC rights
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# Publicly accessible Azure Container App has an assigned managed identity that can escalate privileges to obtain administrator-equivalent RBAC rights

## Description{% #description %}

A publicly accessible Azure Container App has an assigned managed identity that can escalate privileges to obtain administrator-equivalent Azure RBAC rights at the tenant root, a management group, or a subscription. If the container app is compromised, an attacker could use the associated managed identity to escalate privileges and control resources and security settings within that scope.

## Remediation{% #remediation %}

1. Restrict public network access to the container app by using internal ingress or IP ingress restrictions. See [Configure ingress for Azure Container Apps](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/ingress-how-to).
1. Remove unnecessary privilege-escalation permissions from the managed identity and grant only the permissions required by the workload. See [Remove Azure role assignments](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/role-assignments-remove).