Standardlikelihood: Lowseverity: HighStable

CAPEC-401Physically Hacking Hardware

Abstraction
Standard
Status
Stable
Likelihood
Low
Severity
High

Description

An adversary exploits a weakness in access control to gain access to currently installed hardware and precedes to implement changes or secretly replace a hardware component which undermines the system's integrity for the purpose of carrying out an attack. Metadata: standard CAPEC pattern, status stable, likelihood low, severity high. Underlying weakness: CWE-1263. Related CAPEC pattern: [object Object].

Related weaknesses· 1

CWE-1263

Related attack patterns· 1

CAPEC-440 (ChildOf)

Exploits1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessImproper Physical Access Controlcwe-1263100%live

Related by meaning· 6

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

CAPEC
Hardware Integrity Attack
CAPEC
Hardware Component Substitution
CAPEC
Malicious Hardware Update
CAPEC
Infected Hardware
CAPEC
Hardware Design Specifications Are Altered
CAPEC
Malicious Hardware Component Replacement
Sourced from MITRE CAPEC. Curated by Adam Lundqvist, SQUR.