Detailedseverity: LowDraft

CAPEC-612WiFi MAC Address Tracking

Abstraction
Detailed
Status
Draft
Severity
Low

Description

In this attack scenario, the attacker passively listens for WiFi messages and logs the associated Media Access Control (MAC) addresses. These addresses are intended to be unique to each wireless device (although they can be configured and changed by software). Once the attacker is able to associate a MAC address with a particular user or set of users (for example, when attending a public event), the attacker can then scan for that MAC address to track that user in the future.

Related weaknesses· 2

CWE-201CWE-300

Related attack patterns· 1

CAPEC-292 (ChildOf)

Exploits2

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessInsertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Datacwe-201100%live
WeaknessChannel Accessible by Non-Endpointcwe-300100%live

Related by meaning· 6

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

CAPEC
WiFi SSID Tracking
CAPEC
Signal Strength Tracking
CAPEC
Wi-Fi Jamming
CAPEC
Sniffing Network Traffic
CAPEC
Peripheral Footprinting
CAPEC
Evil Twin Wi-Fi Attack
Sourced from MITRE CAPEC. Curated by Adam Lundqvist, SQUR.