Standard attack pattern
Draft
CAPEC-69: Target Programs with Elevated Privileges
This attack targets programs running with elevated privileges. The adversary tries to leverage a vulnerability in the running program and get arbitrary code to execute with elevated privileges.
Very High
Typical severity
Per MITRE
High
Likelihood of attack
Per MITRE
2
Related weaknesses
CWEs this targets
Standard
Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
CAPEC-69 (Target Programs with Elevated Privileges) 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.