Standardlikelihood: Lowseverity: Very HighDraft

CAPEC-68Subvert Code-signing Facilities

Abstraction
Standard
Status
Draft
Likelihood
Low
Severity
Very High

Description

Many languages use code signing facilities to vouch for code's identity and to thus tie code to its assigned privileges within an environment. Subverting this mechanism can be instrumental in an attacker escalating privilege. Any means of subverting the way that a virtual machine enforces code signing classifies for this style of attack.

Related weaknesses· 3

CWE-325CWE-328CWE-1326

MITRE ATT&CK crosswalk· 1

T1553.002: Subvert Trust Controls: Code Signing

Related attack patterns· 1

CAPEC-233 (ChildOf)

Exploits3

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessMissing Immutable Root of Trust in Hardwarecwe-1326100%live
WeaknessUse of Weak Hashcwe-328100%live
WeaknessMissing Cryptographic Stepcwe-325100%live

Related to1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
SubTechniqueCode Signingt1553.002100%live

Related by meaning· 6

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

CAPEC
Signing Malicious Code
CAPEC
Developer Signing Maliciously Altered Software
CAPEC
Signature Spoofing by Misrepresentation
CAPEC
Code Injection
CAPEC
Software Integrity Attack
Sub-technique
Code Signing
Sourced from MITRE CAPEC. Curated by Adam Lundqvist, SQUR.