MetaCAPEC-607
CAPEC-607: Obstruction
Description
An attacker obstructs the interactions between system components. By interrupting or disabling these interactions, an adversary can often force the system into a degraded state or cause the system to stop working as intended. This can cause the system components to be unavailable until the obstruction mitigated.
- 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: Manipulate System Resources
Consequences
- Availability
Resource Consumption
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.