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Description

Add ADCS ESC16 collection and attack-path analysis. Enterprise CA disabled-extension properties feed the ADCSESC16 relationship processor and edge composition, including checks for the disabled NTDS CA security extension. Keep unit coverage and all generated schema bindings with the implementation.

Motivation and Context

Resolves BED-6176. Associated discussion: #672.

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  • AD analysis and ingestion unit tests passed on this layer.
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Stack

Merge order for ESC16:

  1. Analysis and schema: feat: add ADCS ESC16 analysis BED-6176 #3537 (537 changed lines).
  2. Integration coverage: test: add ADCS ESC16 integration coverage BED-6176 #3538 (947 changed lines).
  3. Frontend: feat: add ADCS ESC16 frontend support BED-6176 #3480 (337 changed lines).

The three layers preserve the original feature tree exactly.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added detection and analysis for the ADCSESC16 Active Directory Certificate Services escalation path.
    • ADCSESC16 relationships are now included in graph visualization, pathfinding, and escalation results.
    • Added visibility into disabled certificate authority extensions, including collected extension data.
    • Added tracing of related certificate templates, enterprise certificate authorities, domains, and principals.
    • Potential escalation paths are identified when certificate authority extension settings, template configuration, and access conditions align.

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The changes add disabled-extension data to AD properties and implement ADCSESC16 detection, relationship generation, and path composition. ADCSESC16 is added to graph schemas, traversal registries, escalation queries, and frontend pathfinding lists.

Changes: ADCSESC16 Detection and Graph Integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Disabled-extension property contract
packages/csharp/graphschema/PropertyNames.cs, packages/cue/bh/ad/ad.cue, packages/go/ein/incoming_models.go, packages/go/ein/ad.go, packages/go/graphschema/ad/ad.go, packages/javascript/bh-shared-ui/src/graphSchema.ts
The AD schemas add DisabledExtensions and DisabledExtensionsCollected. CA registry parsing maps collected disabled extensions to the AD property. The CUE schema removes the WebClientRunning declaration.
ADCSESC16 relationship registration
cmd/api/src/database/migration/extensions/ad_graph_schema.sql, packages/cue/bh/ad/ad.cue, packages/go/graphschema/ad/ad.go, packages/go/graphschema/common/common.go, packages/javascript/bh-shared-ui/src/graphSchema.ts
The database migration and language schemas register ADCSESC16. Relationship registries include it in the specified traversal and edge-composition sets.
ESC16 detection and relationship submission
packages/go/analysis/ad/adcs.go, packages/go/analysis/ad/esc16.go, packages/go/analysis/ad/esc16_test.go
ADCS post-processing checks CA properties and certificate-template eligibility before submitting ADCSESC16 relationships. Reader failures abort the sink; successful readers complete it. Tests cover certificate-template validation.
ADCSESC16 path composition and query support
packages/go/analysis/ad/ad.go, packages/go/analysis/ad/esc16.go, packages/go/analysis/ad/queries.go, packages/javascript/bh-shared-ui/src/graphSchema.ts
Edge composition combines qualifying CA and certificate-template paths. Analysis dispatch, escalation queries, and frontend pathfinding lists include ADCSESC16.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CARegistryData
  participant ParseCARegistryProperties
  participant PostADCSESC16
  participant FilteredRelationshipSink
  CARegistryData->>ParseCARegistryProperties: Provide collected disabled extensions
  ParseCARegistryProperties->>PostADCSESC16: Add disabled extensions to node properties
  PostADCSESC16->>FilteredRelationshipSink: Submit ADCSESC16 relationships
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Suggested labels: enhancement, go

Suggested reviewers: jonasbk

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 9ef6d

Collected CAs may not receive ESC16 relationships, malformed data may suppress unrelated ADCS relationships, and certificate-binding behavior remains insufficiently established for confident merge.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 9ef6d

The new detection requires collection-status data that is not produced alongside the collected values. Unless the collector supplies that status separately, valid attack paths can be omitted or removed during reconciliation. The concern is security visibility, not a demonstrated access-control bypass.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The new collection-to-analysis contract depends on an independently supplied collected-status property. ParseCARegistryProperties persists a successfully collected disabled-extension list without deriving disabledextensionscollected, while PostADCSESC16 requires that flag. If it is absent from the incoming base Properties and stored graph, detection stops; the caller treats the missing property as successful processing, permitting reconciliation to delete existing, unvisited ADCSESC16 relationships. This creates a conditional security-visibility gap. A collector that always supplies the flag can satisfy the contract, but that guarantee was not established.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The identified concern affects security-analysis output for qualifying imported CAs, associated domains, and dependent escalation paths. The inspected new processing writes graph relationships; it does not itself execute certificate enrollment or grant directory privileges. No cross-tenant exposure was established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A collected result containing the disabled NTDS-extension OID is insufficient for detection when disabledextensionscollected is absent from both base Properties and stored graph state. Missing status can therefore hide an otherwise qualifying modeled path. This is a conditional integration concern, not a demonstrated attacker-triggered authentication bypass.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Imported CA properties become evidence for security relationships. Base Properties are preserved, so an upstream collector can supply the required collected-status flag independently. The registry mapper neither derives that flag nor carries its collection failure reason into the returned property map, leaving provenance dependent on the upstream contract.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The shared sink uses duplicate filtering, cancellation-aware submission, worker-error propagation, and one-time shutdown. These controls contain propagated failures and prevent stale-edge pruning after cancellation or writer failure. They do not protect the separate missing-property path that the new reader reports as successful.
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Title check Passed The title "feat: add ADCS ESC16 analysis BED-6176" names the main change. The PR adds ADCS ESC16 detection and attack-path analysis, which the title states. It uses a conventional commit prefix and a …
Description check Passed The description follows the template's main sections. It has a Description, a Motivation and Context section that links BED-6176 and issue #672, a Validation section, and stack merge notes. Several te…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is inconclusive: files from earlier reviews still need to be rechecked within the check's analysis limits. Not blocking.
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The title "feat: add ADCS ESC16 analysis BED-6176" names the main change. The PR adds ADCS ESC16 detection and attack-path analysis, which the title states. It uses a conventional commit prefix and a ticket reference. The title does not mention the disabled-extension properties or the frontend and integration layers, but it does not need to cover every detail.

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Review comments at @packages/go/analysis/ad/adcs.go:
- Around line 510-517: Update the ADCSESC16 reader’s error handling around
PostADCS so only the sentinel sink-stop error is returned; log and skip
data-dependent errors from PostADCS or filterUserDNSResults. Define and reuse a
package-level errESC16SinkStopped sentinel where the sink rejection error is
created, preserving the existing abort path for errors matching it while
returning nil for all other errors.

Review comments at @packages/go/analysis/ad/esc16.go:
- Around line 41-60: Gate PostADCSESC16 relationship submission on
HasWeakCertBindingInForest(domain) || HasUPNCertMappingInForest(domain), and add
the corresponding certificate-binding condition for domain controllers in
GetADCSESC16EdgeComposition. Reuse the existing binding-gate patterns from the
ESC9a/b and ESC10a/b implementations, preserving current behavior for domains
and controllers that satisfy the condition.

Review comments at @packages/go/ein/ad.go:
- Around line 1343-1344: Update ParseCARegistryProperties so the enterprise CA
property map persists the collected status for DisabledExtensions by setting the
ad.DisabledExtensionsCollected property alongside ad.DisabledExtensions when the
collection is marked collected.

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Comment on lines +510 to +517
} else if err != nil {
slog.ErrorContext(
ctx,
"Failed post processing for ADCSESC16",
attr.Error(err),
)
return err
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Return only sink-stop errors from the ADCSESC16 reader.

This reader returns every error that is not graph.ErrPropertyNotFound. The ten other ESC readers log their errors and return nil. If this reader returns an error, readerPool.Done() fails. PostADCS then calls escSink.Abort() and returns that error. As a result, no ESC edge is written or reconciled for any Enterprise CA.

Two kinds of data-dependent errors can cause this:

  • PostADCSESC16 returns a type-mismatch error from Properties.Get(...).Bool() or .StringSlice() when one CA has a malformed value, such as a non-list disabledextensions property.
  • filterUserDNSResults returns a type error from isManagedServiceAccount when one user has a malformed gmsa or msa property.

Each of these errors affects one CA or one template. Neither should stop ADCS post-processing for the whole environment.

Aborting is correct when the sink stops accepting relationships. In that case, a flush would delete edges that were never resubmitted. Keep that abort path. Log and skip the other errors. A sentinel error is enough to tell the two cases apart.

Proposed fix
+// in esc16.go
+var errESC16SinkStopped = errors.New("ADCSESC16 sink stopped accepting relationships")
 ...
-								submissionErr = errors.Join(ctx.Err(), errors.New("ADCSESC16 sink stopped accepting relationships"))
+								submissionErr = errors.Join(ctx.Err(), errESC16SinkStopped)
 		} else if err != nil {
 			slog.ErrorContext(
 				ctx,
 				"Failed post processing for ADCSESC16",
 				attr.Error(err),
 			)
-			return err
+			if errors.Is(err, errESC16SinkStopped) {
+				return err
+			}
 		}
 		return nil
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Review comment at @packages/go/analysis/ad/adcs.go around lines 510 - 517:
Update the ADCSESC16 reader’s error handling around PostADCS so only the
sentinel sink-stop error is returned; log and skip data-dependent errors from
PostADCS or filterUserDNSResults. Define and reuse a package-level
errESC16SinkStopped sentinel where the sink rejection error is created,
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Comment thread packages/go/analysis/ad/esc16.go Resolved
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