CAPEC-81 — Web Server Logs Tampering
CAPEC-81: Web Server Logs Tampering
MITRE CAPEC attack pattern
| Status | Draft |
| Typical severity | High |
| Likelihood of attack | Medium |
| Catalogue | CAPEC 3.9 (2023-01-24) |
Description
Web Logs Tampering attacks involve an attacker injecting, deleting or otherwise tampering with the contents of web logs typically for the purposes of masking other malicious behavior. Additionally, writing malicious data to log files may target jobs, filters, reports, and other agents that process the logs in an asynchronous attack pattern. This pattern of attack is similar to "Log Injection-Tampering-Forging" except that in this case, the attack is targeting the logs of the web server and not the 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-20, CWE-75, CWE-93, CWE-96, CWE-116, CWE-117, CWE-150, CWE-221, CWE-276, CWE-279
Prerequisites
- Target server software must be a HTTP server that performs web logging.
Skills required
- Low: To input faked entries into Web logs
Consequences
- Integrity: Modify Data
Mitigations
- Design: Use input validation before writing to web log
- Design: Validate all log data before it is output