Detailedlikelihood: Highseverity: Very HighDraft
CAPEC-84XQuery Injection
Abstraction
Detailed
Status
Draft
Likelihood
High
Severity
Very High
Description
This attack utilizes XQuery to probe and attack server systems; in a similar manner that SQL Injection allows an attacker to exploit SQL calls to RDBMS, XQuery Injection uses improperly validated data that is passed to XQuery commands to traverse and execute commands that the XQuery routines have access to. XQuery injection can be used to enumerate elements on the victim's environment, inject commands to the local host, or execute queries to remote files and data sources.
Related weaknesses· 2
Related attack patterns· 1
Exploits2
| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Improper Neutralizationcwe-707 | 100% | live |
| Weakness | Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')cwe-74 | 100% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.