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User Delegation is not Identified

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
security

Research direction

Start by comparing SharpHound 2.3.3's delegation collection behavior with the attached GOAD and BloodHound.py datasets, focusing on the missing AllowedToDelegate and Unconstrained Delegation results for sansa.stark and jon.snow. Done means SharpHound correctly reports both delegation cases and the results align with the validated domain permissions and comparison data.

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Description

I've noticed that the latest version of SharpHound (2.3.3) appears to not find delegation correctly for BHCE. I've gathered this with data within GOAD and noticed that some of the edges I've seen in the past are no longer there. I've validated that these permissions do exist in the domain still and were not removed from GOAD.

Specifically, I've noticed the AllowedToDelegate edge is missing from users, as well as the Unconstrained Delegation setting.

Additionally, I've been able to gather these edges from the latest version of BloodHound.py (bloodhound-ce branch) which properly shows the delegation.

The images below focus specifically on the user sansa.stark, the user jon.snow is missing the AllowedToDelegate edge as well.

SharpHound.exe (v2.3.3) Collection

The user sansa.stark is marked without Unconstrained Delegation
image

findDelegation.py Results

The user sansa.stark is labeled with Unconstrained Delegation
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BloodHound.py Collection

The user sansa.stark is properly marked with Unconstrained Delegation
image

Is this a known issue or some other type of deployment issue? Are there any known workarounds for this issue?

I've attached copies of the data collection here as well. Please let me know if you need more data, screenshots, or samples - I would be happy to gather them! Thanks!

NORTH_20240410083414_BloodHound-2.3.3.zip

ce_branch_bloodhoundpy_north_20240411011008_bloodhound.zip

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