Okta Password Accessed

Severity: medium
Group by: actor.alternateId
Entities: domain_names, emails, ip_addresses
Log types: Okta.SystemLog
Tags: Okta, Credential Access:Unsecured Credentials
Reference: https://help.okta.com/en-us/content/topics/apps/apps_revealing_the_password.htm
Source: github.com/panther-labs/panther-analysis

User accessed another user's application password

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Credential Access	`T1552` Unsecured Credentials

Rule body yaml

AnalysisType: rule
Filename: okta_password_accessed.py
RuleID: "Okta.PasswordAccess"
DisplayName: "Okta Password Accessed"
Enabled: true
LogTypes:
  - Okta.SystemLog
Tags:
  - Okta
  - Credential Access:Unsecured Credentials
Reports:
  MITRE ATT&CK:
    - TA0006:T1552
Severity: Medium
Description: >
  User accessed another user's application password
Reference: https://help.okta.com/en-us/content/topics/apps/apps_revealing_the_password.htm
Runbook: >
  Investigate whether this was authorized access.
Tests:
  - Name: User accessed their own password
    ExpectedResult: false
    Log:
      {
        "actor":
          {
            "alternateId": "eric.montgomery@email.com",
            "displayName": "Eric Montgomery",
            "id": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
            "type": "User",
          },
        "authenticationContext":
          { "authenticationStep": 0, "externalSessionId": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" },
        "client":
          {
            "device": "Mobile",
            "geographicalContext":
              {
                "country": "Iceland",
                "geolocation": { "lat": 81.09596, "lon": -10.30578 },
                "state": "Colorado",
              },
            "ipAddress": "218.56.201.220",
            "userAgent":
              {
                "browser": "CHROME",
                "os": "Android 1.x",
                "rawUserAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; ONEPLUS A6013) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36",
              },
            "zone": "null",
          },
        "debugContext": { "debugData": "" },
        "eventType": "application.user_membership.show_password",
        "legacyEventType": "app.generic.show.password",
        "outcome": { "result": "SUCCESS" },
        "p_any_domain_names": ["."],
        "p_any_emails": ["eric.montgomery@email.com"],
        "p_any_ip_addresses": ["218.56.201.220"],
        "p_log_type": "Okta.SystemLog",
        "published": "2022-09-09 04:26:09.792",
        "request":
          {
            "ipChain":
              [
                {
                  "geographicalContext":
                    {
                      "country": "Iceland",
                      "geolocation": { "lat": 81.0959, "lon": -104.9868 },
                    },
                  "ip": "218.56.201.220",
                  "version": "V4",
                },
              ],
          },
        "securityContext":
          {
            "asNumber": 940252,
            "asOrg": "t-mobile",
            "domain": ".",
            "isProxy": false,
            "isp": "t-mobile usa  inc.",
          },
        "severity": "INFO",
        "target":
          [
            {
              "alternateId": "eric.montgomery@email.com",
              "displayName": "Eric Montgomery",
              "id": "16442344346b2385",
              "type": "AppUser",
            },
            {
              "alternateId": "Application2",
              "displayName": "Application2",
              "id": "16442ew83428795",
              "type": "AppInstance",
            },
            {
              "alternateId": "eric.montgomery@email.com",
              "displayName": "Eric Montgomery",
              "id": "16325kd349753",
              "type": "User",
            },
          ],
        "transaction":
          { "detail": {}, "id": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", "type": "WEB" },
        "uuid": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
        "version": "0",
      }
  - Name: User accessed another user's password
    ExpectedResult: true
    Log:
      {
        "actor":
          {
            "alternateId": "eric.montgomery@email.com",
            "displayName": "Eric Montgomery",
            "id": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
            "type": "User",
          },
        "authenticationContext":
          { "authenticationStep": 0, "externalSessionId": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" },
        "client":
          {
            "device": "Mobile",
            "geographicalContext":
              {
                "country": "Iceland",
                "geolocation": { "lat": 81.0959, "lon": -10.30578 },
                "state": "Colorado",
              },
            "ipAddress": "218.56.201.220",
            "userAgent":
              {
                "browser": "CHROME",
                "os": "Android 1.x",
                "rawUserAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; ONEPLUS A6013) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36",
              },
            "zone": "null",
          },
        "debugContext": { "debugData": "" },
        "eventType": "application.user_membership.show_password",
        "legacyEventType": "app.generic.show.password",
        "outcome": { "result": "SUCCESS" },
        "p_any_domain_names": ["."],
        "p_any_emails": ["eric.montgomery@email.com"],
        "p_any_ip_addresses": ["218.56.201.220"],
        "p_log_type": "Okta.SystemLog",
        "published": "2022-09-09 04:26:09.792",
        "request":
          {
            "ipChain":
              [
                {
                  "geographicalContext":
                    {
                      "country": "Iceland",
                      "geolocation": { "lat": 81.09596, "lon": -10.30578 },
                    },
                  "ip": "218.56.201.220",
                  "version": "V4",
                },
              ],
          },
        "securityContext":
          {
            "asNumber": 124526,
            "asOrg": "t-mobile",
            "domain": ".",
            "isProxy": false,
            "isp": "t-mobile usa  inc.",
          },
        "severity": "INFO",
        "target":
          [
            {
              "alternateId": "vanessajohns@email.com",
              "displayName": "Vanessa Johns",
              "id": "0uat6tr9otyvdJbBM696",
              "type": "AppUser",
            },
            {
              "alternateId": "Application3",
              "displayName": "Application3",
              "id": "0oas6wl204Dn3gG5D696",
              "type": "AppInstance",
            },
            {
              "alternateId": "vanessajohns@email.com",
              "displayName": "Vanessa Johns",
              "id": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
              "type": "User",
            },
          ],
        "transaction":
          { "detail": {}, "id": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", "type": "WEB" },
        "uuid": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
        "version": "0",
      }
  - Name: User accessed their own password - 2
    ExpectedResult: false
    Log:
      {
        "actor":
          {
            "alternateId": "john.doe@emaildomain.com",
            "displayName": "John Doe",
            "id": "00u3nwfjxxxxxxxxxxxx",
            "type": "User",
          },
        "authenticationContext":
          { "authenticationStep": 0, "externalSessionId": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" },
        "client":
          {
            "device": "Mobile",
            "geographicalContext":
              {
                "country": "Iceland",
                "geolocation": { "lat": 81.09596, "lon": -10.30578 },
                "state": "Colorado",
              },
            "ipAddress": "218.56.201.220",
            "userAgent":
              {
                "browser": "CHROME",
                "os": "Android 1.x",
                "rawUserAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; ONEPLUS A6013) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36",
              },
            "zone": "null",
          },
        "debugContext": { "debugData": "" },
        "eventType": "application.user_membership.show_password",
        "legacyEventType": "app.generic.show.password",
        "outcome": { "result": "SUCCESS" },
        "published": "2024-03-27 13:17:41.835000000",
        "severity": "INFO",
        "securityContext":
          {
            "asNumber": 940252,
            "asOrg": "t-mobile",
            "domain": ".",
            "isProxy": false,
            "isp": "t-mobile usa  inc.",
          },
        "target":
          [
            {
              "alternateId": "John Doe",
              "displayName": "John Doe",
              "id": "00u3nwfjxxxxxxxxxxxx",
              "type": "AppUser",
            },
            {
              "alternateId": "Software",
              "displayName": "On The Fly App",
              "id": "11u3nwfjxxxxxxxxxxxx",
              "type": "AppInstance",
            },
            {
              "alternateId": "john.doe@emaildomain.com",
              "displayName": "John Doe",
              "id": "00u3nwfjxxxxxxxxxxxx",
              "type": "User",
            },
          ],
        "transaction":
          { "detail": {}, "id": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", "type": "WEB" },
        "uuid": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
        "version": "0",
      }

Detection logic

Condition

eventType eq "application.user_membership.show_password"

This rule also runs imperative logic the parser cannot express as a filter; the conditions above are the structured part it could extract.

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

Field	Kind	Values
`eventType`	eq	`application.user_membership.show_password`

Output fields

Fields the rule emits when it matches. Chronicle authors list these in the outcome block; they appear on the detection and $risk_score drives alerting. Sentinel / Defender XDR rules build them up through project / summarize / extend stages. Sentinel maps these into alert fields via entityMappings and customDetails; Defender XDR custom detections surface them as alert fields directly.

Field	Source
`alternateId`	`actor.alternateId`

`j` / `k`	Scroll down / up
`d` / `u`	Half-page down / up
`gg` / `G`	Top / bottom
`h` / `l`	History back / forward
`f`	Follow link (`Shift` = new tab)
`/`	Focus search
`?`	Toggle this help
`↑` / `↓`	Navigate search results
`Enter`	Open highlighted result
`Esc`	Close results / dialog

`type:`	`events` / `rules` / `providers`
`vendor:`	`sigma` / `elastic` / `splunk` / `kusto` / `chronicle` (vendor name alone also works: `sigma:`, `kql:`, `secops:`…)
`tactic:`	TA-id, slug, or name: `credential_access`, `TA0006`
`technique:`	technique or sub-technique ID: `T1003`, `T1003.001` (alias `tech:`)
`severity:`	`critical` / `high` / `medium` / `low` / `informational` (alias `sev:`)
`risk_score`	Numeric comparison on the Elastic risk score (0 to 100): `risk_score>50`, `risk_score<=20`, `risk_score=99` (alias `risk`; Elastic rules only)
`stages:`	Rules with exactly N pipeline stages
`correlation:`	`single_event` / `sequence` / `alternatives` / `alternatives_cross_log` / `all_required` / `correlated`
`with:`	Co-occurrence event-id; stacks (`with:4624 with:4769`) to require all, while a comma list in one occurrence (`with:4624,4769`) is an either-or group. Implies multi-event
`like:`	Structural neighbors of a rule slug (equivalents + subsumption stricter / broader): `like:comsvcs_lsass_memory_dump-splunk-sysmon`
`groupby:`	Entity-grouping substring match against `group_by_keys`: `groupby:user`, `groupby:host`
`uses:`	Rules whose predicate tree touches the field (any kind, any value): `uses:CommandLine`
`excludes:`	Rules with top-level `not()` clauses on the field (FP whitelists): `excludes:ParentImage`
`field:` / `value:`	Predicate search; narrows rule cards to those with a matching leaf and drives the indicator tier. Unquoted = substring, wildcards allowed (`value:mimikatz`)
`indicator:`	Shorthand for `field:F value:V`: `indicator:Image=*\powershell.exe`
`kind:`	Filter by predicate kind. Narrows rule cards to those carrying a matching predicate leaf (`vendor:elastic kind:cidr_match`) and drives the indicator tier: `contains` / `starts_with` / `ends_with` / `regex` / `cidr` / `eq` / `in` … (operator aliases `op:`/`match:`)
`has:` / `no:`	`sample`, `field`, `notes`, `refs`, `trace`, `thirdparty`, `rule`, `pattern`, `timewindow`, `threshold`, `newterms`, `sigma`/`elastic`/`splunk`/`kusto`/`chronicle`
`-op:val`	Exclude matches; works on most operators but not `type:`/`like:`/`has:`/`no:` (use `no:<flag>` to exclude a rule flag): `tactic:execution -vendor:splunk`. Standalone `-kind:`/`-field:`/`-value:` drop every rule carrying a matching predicate leaf (`type:rules -kind:is_null`)
`field:"…"` / `value:"…"`	Quoted value = anchored exact match (also allows spaces): `value:"net user"`
`a,b`	Comma = OR inside one operator (`vendor:sigma,elastic`, `severity:high,critical`); repeating a facet merges the same way. `field:`/`value:` never split (literal commas)
`vendors:` / `stage:`	Singular and plural spellings fold to the canonical operator and value: `tactics:` = `tactic:`, `type:event` = `type:events`, `correlation:sequences` = `correlation:sequence`, `has:thresholds` = `has:threshold`
`"quoted phrase"`	Exact-match a multi-word phrase (free text)