Metaseverity: MediumDraft
CAPEC-129Pointer Manipulation
Abstraction
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Status
Draft
Severity
Medium
Description
This attack pattern involves an adversary manipulating a pointer within a target application resulting in the application accessing an unintended memory location. This can result in the crashing of the application or, for certain pointer values, access to data that would not normally be possible or the execution of arbitrary code. Since pointers are simply integer variables, Integer Attacks may often be used in Pointer Attacks.
Related weaknesses· 3
Exploits3
| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Untrusted Pointer Dereferencecwe-822 | 100% | live |
| Weakness | Incorrect Calculationcwe-682 | 100% | live |
| Weakness | Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offsetcwe-823 | 100% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.