fix(entra): MT.1011 explain why browser-scoped policies do not match (#2105) - #2175
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…on policy (maester365#2105) MT.1011 (Test-MtCaSecureSecurityInfoRegistration) required the matching Conditional Access policy to apply to all client app types (clientAppTypes -eq "all"). Security info registration is an interactive, browser-based flow, so a policy correctly scoped to the browser client app secures it just as well. Such policies were reported as a false positive even though they fully secure security info registration from a trusted location. Accept a policy whose clientAppTypes contains "all" or "browser". A policy scoped only to non-interactive clients (e.g. mobileAppsAndDesktopClients) still does not match, since registration does not occur there. Also clarify the (previously generic and misleading) failure message and the command description to state the exact criteria a matching policy must meet. Adds unit tests covering the regression (browser-scoped policy passes), the all-client-apps policy, and the failing cases (no excluded trusted location, non-browser-only scope, wrong target).
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Understand this PR’s impact Explore downstream dependencies and potential security impact with Blast Radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change documents the policy criteria for security info registration and expands the failure message. New tests cover valid and invalid client app, location, and target configurations. ChangesSecurity info registration policy validation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The security-info registration check can report a policy as compliant even when it excludes only a non-trusted location. This can misstate the Conditional Access posture, so require trusted-location validation before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@powershell/public/maester/entra/Test-MtCaSecureSecurityInfoRegistration.ps1`:
- Line 43: Update the trusted-location protection condition in
Test-MtCaSecureSecurityInfoRegistration to resolve the IDs in excludeLocations
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Check for clientType - all is intentional since we want the policy to align with the recommendation in the Microsoft doc. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/conditional-access/policy-all-users-security-info-registration
Also the security registration info is surfaced not just in the browser but in native apps like Authenticator and the policy gets triggered when an MFA or auth method is added in Authenticator app etc. That's the reason it has a special way of selecting it instead of the standard client id.
The other enhancements are good to provide more clarity to the user.
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Do you want to update the PR to exclude the change that added 'browser'?
Revert the clientAppTypes change: requiring "all" is intentional. Security info registration is not browser-only - the urn:user:registersecurityinfo user action is also triggered from native apps such as Microsoft Authenticator when an authentication method is added, which is why the user action is selected differently from a standard cloud app. A browser-scoped policy leaves those paths uncovered, and "all" is the configuration Microsoft recommends. Keep the clarity improvements, which are what maester365#2105 actually needed: the failure message and comment-based help now spell out every condition a policy must meet, and call out the browser-only case directly so it is clear why a policy that looks correct is not matched. The browser-only fixture is kept as a regression test with its assertion inverted, so re-introducing the browser condition fails the suite. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@earbona23 thanks for the patience on this, and sorry for the slow round trip. I've pushed a change to your branch reverting the Your other improvements are exactly what #2105 actually needed, and I've kept them. The failure message was I also kept all five of your Pester fixtures, with the browser-only case inverted from |
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Require AllTrusted in excludeLocations. The current check accepts any non-null exclusion list. Add a fixture with only a non-trusted named location and assert False. Update the implementation to require AllTrusted.
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at line 117, Update the excludeLocations validation to require an AllTrusted
location rather than accepting any non-null exclusion list. Add a fixture
containing only a non-trusted named location and assert the result is False,
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Fixes #2105
MT.1011 (
Test-MtCaSecureSecurityInfoRegistration) reported a false positive — it failed even when a Conditional Access policy that secures security info registration existed.Root cause
The match required the policy to apply to all client app types:
Security info registration (
urn:user:registersecurityinfo) is an interactive, browser-based flow. A policy correctly scoped to the browser client app (clientAppTypes = ["browser"]) secures registration just as well as one scoped toall, but was rejected. In the reported environment the policy showedClient apps: 1 included(browser), which is exactly this case.Fix
Accept a policy whose
clientAppTypescontains"all"or"browser":A policy scoped only to non-interactive clients (e.g.
mobileAppsAndDesktopClients) still does not match, since registration does not occur there — so no false negative is introduced. All other criteria (all users,urn:user:registersecurityinfouser action, all locations included, at least one trusted location excluded) are unchanged.Misleading output (also raised in the issue)
The generic failure message
"No Conditional Access policy securing security info registration."did not explain why a policy did not match. It now states the exact criteria a matching policy must meet, and the command.Descriptionwas clarified to the same effect.✅ Checks
.Descriptionupdated in-source; generated docs are produced by the build.)ℹ️ Additional Information
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powershell/tests/functions/Test-MtCaSecureSecurityInfoRegistration.Tests.ps1covering:registersecurityinfouser action failsInvoke-Pester→ 5/5 pass.Invoke-ScriptAnalyzeron both changed files → 0 findings.Summary by CodeRabbit