Detailedseverity: LowStable
CAPEC-296ICMP Information Request
Abstraction
Detailed
Status
Stable
Severity
Low
Description
An adversary sends an ICMP Information Request to a host to determine if it will respond to this deprecated mechanism. ICMP Information Requests are a deprecated message type. Information Requests were originally used for diskless machines to automatically obtain their network configuration, but this message type has been superseded by more robust protocol implementations like DHCP.
Related weaknesses· 1
Related attack patterns· 1
Exploits1
| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actorcwe-200 | 100% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.