Detailedlikelihood: Lowseverity: HighStable
CAPEC-146XML Schema Poisoning
Abstraction
Detailed
Status
Stable
Likelihood
Low
Severity
High
Description
An adversary corrupts or modifies the content of XML schema information passed between a client and server for the purpose of undermining the security of the target. XML Schemas provide the structure and content definitions for XML documents. Schema poisoning is the ability to manipulate a schema either by replacing or modifying it to compromise the programs that process documents that use this schema.
Related weaknesses· 2
Related attack patterns· 1
Exploits2
| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | External Control of Assumed-Immutable Web Parametercwe-472 | 100% | live |
| Weakness | External Control of System or Configuration Settingcwe-15 | 100% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.