CAPEC-113: Interface Manipulation
Description
An adversary manipulates the use or processing of an interface (e.g. Application Programming Interface (API) or System-on-Chip (SoC)) resulting in an adverse impact upon the security of the system implementing the interface. This can allow the adversary to bypass access control and/or execute functionality not intended by the interface implementation, possibly compromising the system which integrates the interface. Interface manipulation can take on a number of forms including forcing the unexpected use of an interface or the use of an interface in an unintended way.
- Likelihood of attack
- Medium
- Typical severity
- Medium
- Abstraction
- MetaA decidedly abstract characterisation of a methodology or technique.
Mechanism of attack: Abuse Existing Functionality
Prerequisites
- The target system must expose interface functionality in a manner that can be discovered and manipulated by an adversary. This may require reverse engineering the interface or decrypting/de-obfuscating client-server exchanges.
Mitigations
CAPEC 3.9 lists no mitigation for this pattern; see its child patterns or related weaknesses.