CAPEC-531: Hardware Component Substitution
Description
An attacker substitutes out a tested and approved hardware component for a maliciously-altered hardware component. This type of attack is carried out directly on the system, enabling the attacker to then cause disruption or additional compromise.
- Likelihood of attack
- Low
- Typical severity
- High
- Abstraction
- DetailedA low-level, detailed pattern, often for a particular technology.
Mechanism of attack: Manipulate System Resources
Prerequisites
- Physical access to the system or the integration facility where hardware components are kept.
Skills required
- HighAble to develop and manufacture malicious system components that perform the same functions and processes as their non-malicious counterparts.
Mitigations
CAPEC 3.9 lists no mitigation for this pattern; see its child patterns or related weaknesses.
Related weaknesses (CWE)
CAPEC 3.9 links no CWE weakness to this pattern.
ATT&CK techniques (CAPEC taxonomy mapping)
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.