Metalikelihood: Mediumseverity: HighDraft

CAPEC-554Functionality Bypass

Abstraction
Meta
Status
Draft
Likelihood
Medium
Severity
High

Description

An adversary attacks a system by bypassing some or all functionality intended to protect it. Often, a system user will think that protection is in place, but the functionality behind those protections has been disabled by the adversary. Metadata: meta CAPEC pattern, status draft, likelihood medium, severity high. Underlying weaknesses: CWE-424, CWE-1299.

Related weaknesses· 2

CWE-424CWE-1299

Exploits2

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessImproper Protection of Alternate Pathcwe-424100%live
WeaknessMissing Protection Mechanism for Alternate Hardware Interfacecwe-1299100%live

Related by meaning· 6

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

CAPEC
Functionality Misuse
CAPEC
Authentication Bypass
CAPEC
Privilege Abuse
CAPEC
Using Unpublished Interfaces or Functionality
CAPEC
Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs
CAPEC
Removing Important Client Functionality
Sourced from MITRE CAPEC. Curated by Adam Lundqvist, SQUR.