Meta attack pattern
Stable
CAPEC-440: Hardware Integrity Attack
An adversary exploits a weakness in the system maintenance process and causes a change to be made to a technology, product, component, or sub-component or a new one installed during its deployed use at the victim location for the purpose of carrying out an attack.
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High
Typical severity
Per MITRE
Low
Likelihood of attack
Per MITRE
0
Related weaknesses
CWEs this targets
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Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
CAPEC-440 (Hardware Integrity Attack) is a meta-level attack pattern catalogued by MITRE in the Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC). It describes a recurring method attackers use to exploit software weaknesses.
What the attacker needs
Prerequisites
- Influence over the deployed system at a victim location.
Consequences
What a successful CAPEC-440 attack can achieve.
Execute Unauthorized Commands
Affects: Integrity
Terminology & mappings
Mapped taxonomies
- ATTACK: Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Hardware Supply Chain (1195.003)
- : Hardware Additions (1200)