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📑 Description

Adds MT.1198, which reports app registration certificates that were issued with an excessive validity period (default: longer than 365 days).

App management policies only constrain credentials added after the policy takes effect. Their restrictForAppsCreatedAfterDateTime property means certificates that already exist are grandfathered in and are never re-evaluated, so a tenant can pass Test-MtAppManagementPolicyEnabled and still authenticate with multi-year certificates. A stolen private key stays usable for the entire remaining validity period.

Nothing in the repo looks at credential validity today — endDateTime does not appear anywhere under powershell/public/ or tests/. Test-MtAppRegistrationsWithSecrets covers secrets by flagging any use of them, but certificate lifetime is unchecked.

  • Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime, parameter -MaximumValidityDays (default 365, matching the asymmetricKeyLifetime of the sample policy documented in Test-MtAppManagementPolicyEnabled)
  • Severity Medium, category Maester/Entra
  • Certificates that have already expired are ignored — they can no longer authenticate
  • A certificate listed for both Sign and Verify usage is counted once, grouped by customKeyIdentifier
  • No new Graph scopesDirectory.Read.All is already part of Get-MtGraphScope
  • Test number reserved in #️⃣ Pick next Maester test sequence number #697

The second commit adds a contributors.yml entry.

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  • The build and unit tests pass after running /powershell/tests/pester.ps1 locally.

ℹ️ Additional Information

Verified locally on macOS / PowerShell 7.6.4:

  • 8 unit tests in powershell/tests/functions/Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime.Tests.ps1
  • full suite via ./powershell/tests/pester.ps1 with Pester 5.7.1 — 10,364 tests, 0 failures
  • ./build/Build-MaesterModule.ps1 + ./build/Test-MaesterModuleOutput.ps1 pass
  • executed against a real tenant, and confirmed the result detail renders in the HTML report with working Entra deep links

A follow-up test for credentials that are expired or expiring soon (certificates and secrets) is reserved as MT.1199 and will be submitted separately.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a security check that identifies app-registration certificates exceeding a configurable validity period.
    • Excludes expired or incomplete certificates and reports findings with remediation guidance.
    • Added the check to the medium-severity test configuration.
  • Documentation

    • Added user-facing guidance on certificate lifetime risks and remediation.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for passing, failing, skipped, duplicate, expired, and custom-threshold scenarios.
  • Chores

    • Added a contributor profile.

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Adds and exports Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime. The test checks app-registration certificates against a configurable validity limit, reports excessive lifetimes, handles Graph failures, and integrates as MT.1198 with documentation, tests, and configuration.

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Certificate lifetime compliance test

Layer / File(s) Summary
Test contract and certificate retrieval
powershell/public/maester/entra/Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime.ps1, powershell/Maester.psd1, powershell/public/maester/entra/Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime.md
Defines and exports the test, validates Graph connectivity, retrieves app-registration certificates, removes duplicate usages, and documents the check.
Certificate evaluation and reporting
powershell/public/maester/entra/Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime.ps1, powershell/tests/functions/Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime.Tests.ps1
Ignores incomplete or expired certificates, detects excessive validity periods, reports results, handles failures, and adds Pester coverage.
Maester test integration
tests/Maester/Entra/Test-AppRegistrations.Tests.ps1, tests/maester-config.json
Adds MT.1198 coverage and its medium-severity configuration entry.

Contributor profile

Layer / File(s) Summary
Contributor profile metadata
website/contributors/contributors.yml
Adds the simin-vedder contributor profile and social-link metadata.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7f0d1

The PR adds a bounded certificate-lifetime check and related documentation, with reported tests and validation passing; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Maester
  participant Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime
  participant MicrosoftGraph
  participant MaesterResultDetails
  Maester->>Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime: Invoke MT.1198 check
  Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime->>MicrosoftGraph: Retrieve app registrations and certificates
  MicrosoftGraph-->>Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime: Return certificate data
  Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime->>Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime: Filter expired and excessive-lifetime certificates
  Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime->>MaesterResultDetails: Report test result
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- Around line 69-70: Update the certificate compliance check in the validityDays
flow to compare the unrounded ($endDateTime - $startDateTime).TotalDays value
against $MaximumValidityDays, while retaining rounding only for display or
reporting. Add a regression test covering a certificate lifetime of 365 days
plus one second and verify it is noncompliant when the maximum is 365 days.
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@copilot resolve the merge conflicts in this pull request

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- Line 1555: Update the JSON entry identified by "Id": "MT.1196" by adding the
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Comment thread tests/maester-config.json
App management policies only constrain credentials that are added after the
policy takes effect. Their restrictForAppsCreatedAfterDateTime property means
certificates that already exist are grandfathered in and are never
re-evaluated, so a tenant can pass Test-MtAppManagementPolicyEnabled and still
authenticate with multi-year certificates.

Test-MtAppRegistrationCertificateLifetime reports certificates whose validity
period exceeds MaximumValidityDays. The default of 365 days matches the
asymmetricKeyLifetime of the sample app management policy documented in
Test-MtAppManagementPolicyEnabled. Certificates that have already expired can
no longer be used to authenticate and are out of scope.

Adds no new Graph scopes; Directory.Read.All already covers the query.
@simon-vedder
simon-vedder force-pushed the feat/mt1198-app-registration-certificate-lifetime branch from 857b345 to bd26d37 Compare August 25, 2026 09:17
Rounding the validity period to whole days before the comparison let a
certificate that is valid for slightly longer than MaximumValidityDays round
down and pass. A certificate issued for 365 days and one second was reported as
compliant against the 365 day default.

Compare the exact TotalDays value and round up only for display, so a reported
certificate never reads as being within the maximum. Adds a regression test for
the sub-day case and derives both mock dates from a single timestamp, because
two Get-Date calls drift by microseconds and skew the expected day count.
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simon-vedder force-pushed the feat/mt1198-app-registration-certificate-lifetime branch from bd26d37 to 7f0d194 Compare August 25, 2026 09:20
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Rebased onto main. The conflict in tests/maester-config.json is resolved and all three entries are present (MT.1196, MT.1197, MT.1198). The previous conflict resolution had merged two entries into a single object and left the file as invalid JSON, so that is corrected as well.

I also addressed the review finding on the lifetime comparison. The validity period was rounded to whole days before being compared, so a certificate valid for 365 days and one second rounded down to 365 and passed against the 365 day default — the window reached almost half a day. The comparison now uses the exact TotalDays value and rounds up only for display, so a reported certificate never reads as being within the maximum.

Added a regression test for that sub-day case. The mock helper now derives both dates from a single timestamp; two separate Get-Date calls drift by microseconds and skewed the expected day count.

./powershell/tests/pester.ps1 with Pester 5.7.1: 10,417 tests, 0 failures. Build-MaesterModule.ps1 and Test-MaesterModuleOutput.ps1 pass.

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