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CWE-509Replicating Malicious Code (Virus or Worm)

Category: other

Description

Replicating malicious code, including viruses and worms, will attempt to attack other systems once it has successfully compromised the target system or the product.

Common consequences· 1

  • Confidentiality / Integrity / Availability — Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands

Potential mitigations· 2

  • [Operation]Antivirus software scans for viruses or worms.
  • [Installation]Always verify the integrity of the software that is being installed.

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/509.html

Related by meaning· 6

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

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Targeted Malware
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.