MetaCAPEC-233
CAPEC-233: Privilege Escalation
Description
An adversary exploits a weakness enabling them to elevate their privilege and perform an action that they are not supposed to be authorized to perform.
- Likelihood of attack
- Not rated by MITRE
- Typical severity
- Not rated by MITRE
- Abstraction
- MetaA decidedly abstract characterisation of a methodology or technique.
Mechanism of attack: Subvert Access Control
Mitigations
CAPEC 3.9 lists no mitigation for this pattern; see its child patterns or related weaknesses.
Related weaknesses (CWE)
ATT&CK techniques (CAPEC taxonomy mapping)
Marked techniques are also explained, with detection notes and certification relevance, on our interactive ATT&CK map.
Across MITRE's defensive frameworks
Linked through the 1 ATT&CK technique above.
Counter with D3FEND
Defensive techniques MITRE D3FEND maps to the same ATT&CK techniques.
- D3-ALAccount Locking1 shared
- D3-AAAgent Authentication1 shared
- D3-RUAARestore User Account Access1 shared
- D3-ULAUnlock Account1 shared
- D3-UAPUser Account Permissions1 shared
- D3-CDPChange Default Password1 shared
- D3-NTPMNetwork Traffic Policy Mapping1 shared
- D3-AEMApplication Exception Monitoring1 shared
- D3-OPMOperational Process Monitoring1 shared
- D3-SFASystem File Analysis1 shared
- D3-SCPSystem Configuration Permissions1 shared
- D3-AMAccess Modeling1 shared
Detect with CAR
MITRE CAR analytics that cover the same ATT&CK techniques.