CAPEC-516: Hardware Component Substitution During Baselining

Description
An adversary with access to system components during allocated baseline development can substitute a maliciously altered hardware component for a baseline component during the product development and research phases. This can lead to adjustments and calibrations being made in the product so that when the final product, now containing the modified component, is deployed it will not perform as designed and be advantageous to the adversary.
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 :

High

Possibility :

Low

Type :

Detailed
Relationships with other CAPECs

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CAPEC-444: Development Alteration Development Alteration
Prerequisites

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  • The adversary will need either physical access or be able to supply malicious hardware components to the product development facility.
Skills required

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  • Medium Intelligence data on victim's purchasing habits.
  • High Resources to maliciously construct/alter hardware components used for testing by the supplier.
  • High Resources to physically infiltrate supplier.
Taxonomy mappings

Mappings to ATT&CK, OWASP and other frameworks.

ATTACK | Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Hardware Supply Chain
Related CWE

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