CAPEC-51: Poison Web Service Registry
Description
Extended Description
WS-Addressing is used to virtualize services, provide return addresses and other routing information, however, unless the WS-Addressing headers are protected they are vulnerable to rewriting. Content in a registry is deployed by the service provider. The registry in an SOA or Web Services system can be accessed by the service requester via UDDI or other protocol.
Severity :
Very High
Possibility :
High
Type :
Detailed
Relationships with other CAPECs
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Prerequisites
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- The attacker must be able to write to resources or redirect access to the service registry.
Skills required
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- Low To identify and execute against an over-privileged system interface
Taxonomy mappings
Mappings to ATT&CK, OWASP and other frameworks.
Resources required
Capability to directly or indirectly modify registry resources
Related CWE
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