CAPEC-104: Cross Zone Scripting
Description
Extended Description
In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
Severity :
High
Possibility :
Medium
Type :
Standard
Relationships with other CAPECs
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Prerequisites
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- The target must be using a zone-aware browser.
Skills required
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- Medium Ability to craft malicious scripts or find them elsewhere and ability to identify functionality that is running web controls in the local zone and to find an injection vector into that functionality
Taxonomy mappings
Mappings to ATT&CK, OWASP and other frameworks.
Resources required
None: No specialized resources are required to execute this type of attack.
Related CWE
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