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Scope Policy.ReadWrite.ConditionalAccess not granted

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Description

### Describe the bug

I tried managing conditional access policies via the azuread terraform provider using the az CLI login method. Even though my user is Conditional Access Administrator I kept seeing 403 errors in the debug output. After a bit of digging I found this issue https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azuread/issues/1281 that describes the same problem.

I tried the commands listed below, see the respective sections for the commands and their outputs.

### Related command

`az rest --method GET --url "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/authenticationStrengthPolicies/"`

`az login --scope Policy.ReadWrite.ConditionalAccess`

### Errors

Error message for the `az rest` command:

```
Forbidden({"error":{"code":"accessDenied","message":"Request Authorization failed","innerError":{"message":"Request Authorization failed","date":"2026-03-26T13:34:22","request-id":"","client-request-id":""}}})
```

Error message for the `az login` command:

```
invalid_request: AADSTS65002: Consent between first party application '04b07795-8ddb-461a-bbee-02f9e1bf7b46' and first party resource '00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000' must be configured via preauthorization - applications owned and operated by Microsoft must get approval from the API owner before requesting tokens for that API. Trace ID: Correlation ID: Timestamp: 2026-03-26 13:37:32Z. (https://login.microsoftonline.com/error?code=65002)
```

### Issue script & Debug output

```
az rest --method GET --url "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/authenticationStrengthPolicies/" --debug
```

```
cli.knack.cli: Command arguments: ['rest', '--method', 'GET', '--url', 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/authenticationStrengthPolicies/', '--debug']
cli.knack.cli: __init__ debug log:
Enable color in terminal.
cli.knack.cli: Event: Cli.PreExecute []
cli.knack.cli: Event: CommandParser.OnGlobalArgumentsCreate [, , ]
cli.knack.cli: Event: CommandInvoker.OnPreCommandTableCreate []
cli.azure.cli.core: Modules found from index for 'rest': ['azure.cli.command_modules.util']
cli.azure.cli.core: Loading command modules...
cli.azure.cli.core: Loaded command modules in parallel:
cli.azure.cli.core: Name Load Time Groups Commands
cli.azure.cli.core: util 0.002 3 7
cli.azure.cli.core: Total (1) 0.003 3 7
cli.azure.cli.core: These extensions are not installed and will be skipped: ['azext_ai_examples', 'azext_next']
cli.azure.cli.core: Loading extensions:
cli.azure.cli.core: Name Load Time Groups Commands Directory
cli.azure.cli.core: Total (0) 0.000 0 0
cli.azure.cli.core: Loaded 3 groups, 7 commands.
cli.azure.cli.core: Found a match in the command table.
cli.azure.cli.core: Raw command : rest
cli.azure.cli.core: Command table: rest
cli.knack.cli: Event: CommandInvoker.OnPreCommandTableTruncate []
cli.knack.cli: Event: CommandInvoker.OnPreArgumentLoad [.add_subscription_parameter at 0x7f19ccad96c0>]
cli.knack.cli: Event: CommandInvoker.OnPostArgumentLoad []
cli.knack.cli: Event: CommandInvoker.OnPostCommandTableCreate [.add_ids_arguments at 0x7f19ccadbb00>, .add_cache_arguments at 0x7f19ccadbce0>, .update_breaking_change_info at 0x7f19ccadbd80>]
cli.knack.cli: Event: CommandInvoker.OnCommandTableLoaded []
cli.knack.cli: Event: CommandInvoker.OnPreParseArgs []
cli.knack.cli: Event: CommandInvoker.OnPostParseArgs [, , .parse_ids_arguments at 0x7f19ccadbba0>]
cli.azure.cli.core.util: Retrieving token for resource https://graph.microsoft.com/
cli.azure.cli.core.auth.persistence: build_persistence: location='/home/foo/.azure/msal_token_cache.json', encrypt=False
cli.azure.cli.core.auth.binary_cache: load: /home/foo/.azure/msal_http_cache.bin
urllib3.util.retry: Converted retries value: 1 -> Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)
msal.authority: Initializing with Entra authority: https://login.microsoftonline.com/
msal.authority: openid_config("https://login.microsoftonline.com//v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration") = {'token_endpoint': 'https://login.microsoftonline.com//oauth2/v2.0/token', 'token_endpoint_auth_methods_supported': ['client_secret_post', 'private_key_jwt', 'client_secret_basic', 'self_signed_tls_client_auth'], 'jwks_uri': 'https://login.microsoftonline.com//discovery/v2.0/keys', 'response_modes_supported': ['query', 'fragment', 'form_post'], 'subject_types_supported': ['pairwise'], 'id_token_signing_alg_values_supported': ['RS256'], 'response_types_supported': ['code', 'id_token', 'code id_token', 'id_token token'], 'scopes_supported': ['openid', 'profile', 'email', 'offline_access'], 'request_uri_parameter_supported': False, 'userinfo_endpoint': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/oidc/userinfo', 'authorization_endpoint': 'https://login.microsoftonline.com//oauth2/v2.0/authorize', 'device_authorization_endpoint': 'https://login.microsoftonline.com//oauth2/v2.0/devicecode', 'http_logout_supported': True, 'frontchannel_logout_supported': True, 'end_session_endpoint': 'https://login.microsoftonline.com//oauth2/v2.0/logout', 'claims_supported': ['sub', 'iss', 'cloud_instance_name', 'cloud_instance_host_name', 'cloud_graph_host_name', 'msgraph_host', 'aud', 'exp', 'iat', 'auth_time', 'acr', 'nonce', 'preferred_username', 'name', 'tid', 'ver', 'at_hash', 'c_hash', 'email'], 'kerberos_endpoint': 'https://login.microsoftonline.com//kerberos', 'mtls_endpoint_aliases': {'token_endpoint': 'https://mtlsauth.microsoft.com//oauth2/v2.0/token'}, 'tls_client_certificate_bound_access_tokens': True, 'tenant_region_scope': 'EU', 'cloud_instance_name': 'microsoftonline.com', 'cloud_graph_host_name': 'graph.windows.net', 'msgraph_host': 'graph.microsoft.com', 'rbac_url': 'https://pas.windows.net'}
msal.application: Broker enabled? None
cli.azure.cli.core.auth.msal_credentials: UserCredential.acquire_token: scopes=['https://graph.microsoft.com//.default'], claims_challenge=None, kwargs={}
msal.application: Cache hit an AT
msal.telemetry: Generate or reuse correlation_id:
cli.azure.cli.core.util: Request URL: 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/authenticationStrengthPolicies/'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: Request method: 'GET'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: Request headers:
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'User-Agent': 'python/3.13.12 (Linux-5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2-x86_64-with-glibc2.39) AZURECLI/2.84.0 (HOMEBREW)'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'Accept': '*/*'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'Connection': 'keep-alive'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'x-ms-client-request-id': ''
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'CommandName': 'rest'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'ParameterSetName': '--method --url --debug'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'Authorization': 'Bearer '
cli.azure.cli.core.util: Request body:
cli.azure.cli.core.util: None
urllib3.connectionpool: Starting new HTTPS connection (1): graph.microsoft.com:443
urllib3.connectionpool: https://graph.microsoft.com:443 "GET /v1.0/policies/authenticationStrengthPolicies/ HTTP/1.1" 403 None
cli.azure.cli.core.util: Response status: 403
cli.azure.cli.core.util: Response headers:
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'Content-Type': 'application/json'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'Content-Encoding': 'gzip'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'Vary': 'Accept-Encoding'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'Strict-Transport-Security': 'max-age=31536000'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'request-id': ''
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'client-request-id': ''
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'x-ms-ags-diagnostic': '{"ServerInfo":{"DataCenter":"Germany West Central","Slice":"E","Ring":"4","ScaleUnit":"008","RoleInstance":""}}'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: 'Date': 'Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:49:41 GMT'
cli.azure.cli.core.util: Response content:
cli.azure.cli.core.util: {"error":{"code":"accessDenied","message":"Request Authorization failed","innerError":{"message":"Request Authorization failed","date":"2026-03-26T13:49:42","request-id":"","client-request-id":""}}}
cli.azure.cli.core.azclierror: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.84.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/knack/cli.py", line 233, in invoke
cmd_result = self.invocation.execute(args)
File "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.84.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 682, in execute
raise ex
File "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.84.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 812, in _run_jobs_serially
results.append(self._run_job(expanded_arg, cmd_copy))
~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.84.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 781, in _run_job
result = cmd_copy(params)
File "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.84.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 336, in __call__
return self.handler(*args, **kwargs)
~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.84.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/command_operation.py", line 120, in handler
return op(**command_args)
File "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.84.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/azure/cli/command_modules/util/custom.py", line 24, in rest_call
r = send_raw_request(cmd.cli_ctx, method, url, headers, uri_parameters, body,
skip_authorization_header, resource, output_file)
File "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.84.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/azure/cli/core/util.py", line 1096, in send_raw_request
raise HTTPError(reason, r)
azure.cli.core.azclierror.HTTPError: Forbidden({"error":{"code":"accessDenied","message":"Request Authorization failed","innerError":{"message":"Request Authorization failed","date":"2026-03-26T13:49:42","request-id":"","client-request-id":""}}})

cli.azure.cli.core.azclierror: Forbidden({"error":{"code":"accessDenied","message":"Request Authorization failed","innerError":{"message":"Request Authorization failed","date":"2026-03-26T13:49:42","request-id":"","client-request-id":""}}})
az_command_data_logger: Forbidden({"error":{"code":"accessDenied","message":"Request Authorization failed","innerError":{"message":"Request Authorization failed","date":"2026-03-26T13:49:42","request-id":"","client-request-id":""}}})
cli.knack.cli: Event: Cli.PostExecute []
cli.__main__: Command ran in 0.502 seconds (init: 0.121, invoke: 0.381)
```

### Expected behavior

While az CLI doesn't provide subcommands for manageing conditional access policies it should still be possible to use its auth flow for running arbitrary `az rest` commands or to authenticate the azuread terraform provider in a way that doesn't prevent users from managing certain resource types (`azuread_authentication_strength_policy` in my case)

I'd expect a user logged in with `az login` to be able to run `az rest --method GET --url "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/policies/authenticationStrengthPolicies/"` or similar without error (assuming the user has a proper role)

Please consider preauthorizing the scope `Policy.ReadWrite.ConditionalAccess`.

### Environment Summary

azure-cli 2.84.0

core 2.84.0
telemetry 1.1.0

Extensions:
resource-graph 2.1.1

Dependencies:
msal 1.35.0b1
azure-mgmt-resource 24.0.0

Python location '/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.84.0/libexec/bin/python'
Config directory '/home/de70632/.azure'
Extensions directory '/home/de70632/.azure/cliextensions'

Python (Linux) 3.13.12 (main, Feb 3 2026, 17:53:27) [GCC 12.3.0]

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