Detailedlikelihood: Mediumseverity: HighDraft
CAPEC-4Using Alternative IP Address Encodings
Abstraction
Detailed
Status
Draft
Likelihood
Medium
Severity
High
Description
This attack relies on the adversary using unexpected formats for representing IP addresses. Networked applications may expect network location information in a specific format, such as fully qualified domains names (FQDNs), URL, IP address, or IP Address ranges. If the location information is not validated against a variety of different possible encodings and formats, the adversary can use an alternate format to bypass application access control.
Related weaknesses· 2
Related attack patterns· 1
Exploits2
| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Reliance on IP Address for Authenticationcwe-291 | 100% | live |
| Weakness | Improper Handling of Alternate Encodingcwe-173 | 100% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.