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Access & least privilege

A security role assigned to both people and integrations

Severity High

What it is

Security role assigned to both human users and integrations.

Why it matters

One role held by both people and service accounts means every privilege you add hits both audiences at once, and a stolen integration key inherits full human access.

Find it yourself

List every application user (a systemuser row with applicationid set) alongside its roles, then group the result by role instead of by user. Any role whose holders include both a row with applicationid set and a row without it is shared. There is no built-in screen for this, which is most of why it survives.

How to fix it

Split the role in two: humans on one copy, integrations on the other.

Related controls

SOC 2 CC6.3ISO 27001 A.5.15 / A.5.18NIST AC-5 / AC-6

These mappings are indicative. Pathix detects a condition relevant to a control. It does not certify your compliance, and a finding is not an audit opinion. You stay responsible for your control environment.

CMMC relevance

CMMC AC.L1-3.1.1CMMC AC.L2-3.1.4

This condition produces evidence for AC.L1-3.1.1 (Level 1: limit system access to authorized users, processes and devices) and AC.L2-3.1.4 (Level 2: separate duties so no individual can act without collusion), for the Dataverse system in your assessment scope. An assessor testing separation of duties asks which principals hold a given role. When one role is held by both a person and a service account, the access record cannot tell the two apart, so the question has no answer on this system.

Pathix is not a CMMC compliance platform. It does not assess the rest of your environment, mappings are indicative, and assessment outcomes rest with your assessor.

Pathix checks this across every environment you scan, along with 71 other conditions. Self-hosted in your own Azure, read-only, metadata-only.

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