Standardlikelihood: Mediumseverity: HighStable

CAPEC-504Task Impersonation

Abstraction
Standard
Status
Stable
Likelihood
Medium
Severity
High

Description

An adversary, through a previously installed malicious application, impersonates an expected or routine task in an attempt to steal sensitive information or leverage a user's privileges. Metadata: standard CAPEC pattern, status stable, likelihood medium, severity high. Underlying weakness: CWE-1021. Mapped ATT&CK technique: [object Object]. Related CAPEC pattern: [object Object].

Related weaknesses· 1

CWE-1021

MITRE ATT&CK crosswalk· 1

T1036.004: Masquerading: Masquerade Task or Service

Related attack patterns· 1

CAPEC-173 (ChildOf)

Exploits1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessImproper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Framescwe-1021100%live

Related to1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
SubTechniqueMasquerade Task or Servicet1036.004100%live

Related by meaning· 6

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

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Credential Prompt Impersonation
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Intent Spoof
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Hijacking a privileged process
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Replace Trusted Executable
CAPEC
Exploitation of Trusted Identifiers
CAPEC
Token Impersonation
Sourced from MITRE CAPEC. Curated by Adam Lundqvist, SQUR.