CAPEC-603: Blockage
Description
An adversary blocks the delivery of an important system resource causing the system to fail or stop working.
- Likelihood of attack
- Medium
- Typical severity
- High
- Abstraction
- StandardA specific methodology or technique used in an attack.
Mechanism of attack: Manipulate System Resources
Prerequisites
- This attack pattern requires knowledge of where important system resources are logically located as well as how they operate.
Consequences
- Availability
Other
Blocking a resource from functional operation denies its availability to authorized users.
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.