CAPEC-679 — Exploitation of Improperly Configured or Implemented Memory Protections
CAPEC-679: Exploitation of Improperly Configured or Implemented Memory Protections
MITRE CAPEC attack pattern
| Status | Draft |
| Typical severity | Very High |
| Likelihood of attack | Medium |
| Catalogue | CAPEC 3.9 (2023-01-24) |
Description
An adversary takes advantage of missing or incorrectly configured access control within memory to read/write data or inject malicious code into said memory.
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-1222, CWE-1252, CWE-1257, CWE-1260, CWE-1274, CWE-1282, CWE-1312, CWE-1316, CWE-1326
Prerequisites
- Access to the hardware being leveraged.
Skills required
- Medium: Ability to craft malicious code to inject into the memory region.
- High: Intricate knowledge of memory structures.
Consequences
- Integrity: Modify Data
- Confidentiality: Read Data
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability: Execute Unauthorized Commands
- Confidentiality, Access Control, Authorization: Gain Privileges
Mitigations
- Ensure that protected and unprotected memory ranges are isolated and do not overlap.
- If memory regions must overlap, leverage memory priority schemes if memory regions can overlap.
- Ensure that original and mirrored memory regions apply the same protections.
- Ensure immutable code or data is programmed into ROM or write-once memory.