CAPEC-175: Code Inclusion

MITRE CAPEC attack pattern

Description

An adversary exploits a weakness on the target to force arbitrary code to be retrieved locally or from a remote location and executed. This differs from code injection in that code injection involves the direct inclusion of code while code inclusion involves the addition or replacement of a reference to a code file, which is subsequently loaded by the target and used as part of the code of some application.

Where this sits in the chain

A finding maps to a weakness (CWE), a weakness is exploited by an attack pattern (CAPEC), and an attack pattern shows up in ATT&CK as observed adversary behaviour. This page is the middle hop.

Weaknesses exploited: CWE-829

Prerequisites

• The target application must include external code/libraries that are executed when the application runs and the adversary must be able to influence the specific files that get included.
• The victim must run the targeted application, possibly using the crafted parameters that the adversary uses to identify the code to include.

Source

• MITRE CAPEC CAPEC-175