Metalikelihood: Mediumseverity: MediumStable

CAPEC-151Identity Spoofing

Abstraction
Meta
Status
Stable
Likelihood
Medium
Severity
Medium

Description

Identity Spoofing refers to the action of assuming (i.e., taking on) the identity of some other entity (human or non-human) and then using that identity to accomplish a goal. An adversary may craft messages that appear to come from a different principle or use stolen / spoofed authentication credentials.

Related weaknesses· 1

CWE-287

Exploits1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessImproper Authenticationcwe-287100%live

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

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Content Spoofing
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Sourced from MITRE CAPEC. Curated by Adam Lundqvist, SQUR.