CAPEC-576: Group Permission Footprinting
An adversary exploits functionality meant to identify information about user groups and their permissions on the target system to an authorized user. By knowing what users/permissions are registered on the target system, the adversary can inform further and more targeted malicious behavior. An example Windows command which can list local groups is "net localgroup".
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Overview
CAPEC-576 (Group Permission Footprinting) is a standard-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
- The adversary must have gained access to the target system via physical or logical means in order to carry out this attack.
Consequences
What a successful CAPEC-576 attack can achieve.
Other
Affects: Confidentiality
Bypass Protection Mechanism, Hide Activities
Affects: Confidentiality, Access Control, Authorization
How to mitigate it
Defenses that reduce the risk of CAPEC-576.
- Identify programs (such as "net") that may be used to enumerate local group permissions and block them by using a software restriction Policy or tools that restrict program execution by using a process allowlist.
Terminology & mappings
Mapped taxonomies
- ATTACK: Permission Groups Discovery (1069)
- ATTACK: Group Policy Discovery (1615)
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about CAPEC-576.
- What is CAPEC-576?
- An adversary exploits functionality meant to identify information about user groups and their permissions on the target system to an authorized user. By knowing what users/permissions are registered on the target system, the adversary can inform further and more targeted malicious behavior. An example Windows command which can list local groups is "net localgroup".
- How do you prevent CAPEC-576?
- Identify programs (such as "net") that may be used to enumerate local group permissions and block them by using a software restriction Policy or tools that restrict program execution by using a process allowlist.
- What weaknesses does CAPEC-576 target?
- CAPEC-576 exploits 1 CWE weakness, including CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor).
- How severe is CAPEC-576?
- MITRE rates CAPEC-576 as Low severity with low likelihood of attack.
References
Attack-pattern data is sourced from the MITRE CAPEC catalog (v3.9). Weakness associations link to the corresponding CWE entries on RadicalNotion.AI.
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