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Comment by what-the-grump

I think there is too much confusion in the details of the actual attack.

You have to steal the private key for the SAML signing certificate for an app. The correct answer would be to scope any token to only have access to what the app has access to, the second layer which is documented in their 2020 article, is to require mfa on admin actions, and the 3rd layer is to disconnect azure admin accounts from on-prem admin accounts preventing this type of attack.

But disabling SSO altogether is non-starter for most businesses, what are we going to do tomorrow? Spend months recreating 100,000x accounts in various applications, no.

We decrypt ssl traffic in our company, someone steals the private key and now can read the entire stream including your bank account details, lets stop decrypting ssl traffic because someone might leak the key? The answer from the infosec communinity has been its worth the risk.

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