Metalikelihood: Mediumseverity: MediumStable
CAPEC-212Functionality Misuse
Abstraction
Meta
Status
Stable
Likelihood
Medium
Severity
Medium
Description
An adversary leverages a legitimate capability of an application in such a way as to achieve a negative technical impact. The system functionality is not altered or modified but used in a way that was not intended. This is often accomplished through the overuse of a specific functionality or by leveraging functionality with design flaws that enables the adversary to gain access to unauthorized, sensitive data.
Related weaknesses· 3
Exploits3
| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Inclusion of Undocumented Features or Chicken Bitscwe-1242 | 100% | live |
| Weakness | Improper Write Handling in Limited-write Non-Volatile Memoriescwe-1246 | 100% | live |
| Weakness | Sequence of Processor Instructions Leads to Unexpected Behaviorcwe-1281 | 100% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.