CAPEC-519: Documentation Alteration to Cause Errors in System Design
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 :
High
Possibility :
Low
Type :
Detailed
Relationships with other CAPECs
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Prerequisites
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- Advanced knowledge of software capabilities of a manufacturer's product.
- Access to the manufacturer's documentation.
Skills required
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- High Ability to read, interpret, and subsequently alter manufacturer's documentation to cause errors in system design.
- High Ability to stealthly gain access via remote compromise or physical access to the manufacturer's documentation.
Taxonomy mappings
Mappings to ATT&CK, OWASP and other frameworks.
Related CWE
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