Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

Discouraged

Improper Access Control

Abstraction: Pillar · Status: Incomplete

The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

7797 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

GHSA-RR2Q-VQ95-J9P2

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-06-05 00:31 – Updated: 2026-06-05 15:32
VLAI
Details

Inappropriate implementation in Glic in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.53 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-11187"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-284"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-06-04T23:17:25Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Inappropriate implementation in Glic in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.53 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)",
  "id": "GHSA-rr2q-vq95-j9p2",
  "modified": "2026-06-05T15:32:19Z",
  "published": "2026-06-05T00:31:50Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-11187"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://issues.chromium.org/issues/502819675"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-RR3V-F6QJ-VGW6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 02:23 – Updated: 2022-05-17 02:23
VLAI
Details

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking component in Oracle Financial Services Applications 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 12.0.1 through 12.0.3, 12.1.0, and 12.2.0 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality and integrity via vectors related to INFRA, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5620.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2016-5619"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-284"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2016-10-25T14:31:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking component in Oracle Financial Services Applications 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 12.0.1 through 12.0.3, 12.1.0, and 12.2.0 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality and integrity via vectors related to INFRA, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5620.",
  "id": "GHSA-rr3v-f6qj-vgw6",
  "modified": "2022-05-17T02:23:08Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T02:23:08Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5619"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93639"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037049"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-RR5R-RHQX-65GR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-06-30 12:31 – Updated: 2026-06-30 15:30
VLAI
Details

Nokia MantaRay is subject to an Improper Access Control vulnerability due to insufficient authorization within the API. Successful exploitation could allow an authenticated attacker to retrieve confidential information beyond their assigned privileges.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-24816"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-284"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-06-30T10:16:33Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Nokia MantaRay is subject to an Improper Access Control vulnerability due to insufficient authorization within the API. Successful exploitation could allow an authenticated attacker to retrieve confidential information beyond their assigned privileges.",
  "id": "GHSA-rr5r-rhqx-65gr",
  "modified": "2026-06-30T15:30:44Z",
  "published": "2026-06-30T12:31:50Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24816"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.nokia.com/we-are-nokia/security/product-security-advisory/cve-2025-24816"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-RR99-4WCC-6FJC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-06-03 15:30 – Updated: 2026-06-03 18:33
VLAI
Details

Improper Access Control vulnerability in EMTA Grup PDKS allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects PDKS: before 20240603. 

NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-0336"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-284",
      "CWE-306"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-06-03T14:15:08Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
  },
  "details": "Improper Access Control vulnerability in EMTA Grup PDKS allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects PDKS: before 20240603.\u00a0\n\nNOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.",
  "id": "GHSA-rr99-4wcc-6fjc",
  "modified": "2026-06-03T18:33:04Z",
  "published": "2024-06-03T15:30:56Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0336"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://siberguvenlik.gov.tr/guvenlik-bildirimleri/detay/tr-24-0600"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.usom.gov.tr/bildirim/tr-24-0600"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-RR9J-62F6-WHM3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-07-22 18:30 – Updated: 2025-11-25 18:32
VLAI
Details

Improper access control in secure message component in Devolutions Server allows an authenticated user to steal unauthorized entries via the secure message entry attachment feature

This issue affects the following versions :

  • Devolutions Server 2025.2.2.0 through 2025.2.4.0
  • Devolutions Server 2025.1.11.0 and earlier
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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-6741"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-284"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-07-22T17:15:34Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "Improper access control in secure message component in Devolutions Server allows an authenticated user to steal unauthorized entries via the secure message entry attachment feature\n\n\nThis issue affects the following versions :\n\n  *  Devolutions Server 2025.2.2.0 through 2025.2.4.0\n  *  \nDevolutions Server 2025.1.11.0 and earlier",
  "id": "GHSA-rr9j-62f6-whm3",
  "modified": "2025-11-25T18:32:18Z",
  "published": "2025-07-22T18:30:42Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6741"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://devolutions.net/security/advisories/DEVO-2025-0012"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-RRC2-8VGJ-F3RG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 03:31 – Updated: 2022-05-17 03:31
VLAI
Details

The Reminders component in Apple OS X before 10.11.4 allows attackers to bypass an intended user-confirmation requirement and trigger a dialing action via a tel: URL.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2016-1770"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-284"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2016-03-24T01:59:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "The Reminders component in Apple OS X before 10.11.4 allows attackers to bypass an intended user-confirmation requirement and trigger a dialing action via a tel: URL.",
  "id": "GHSA-rrc2-8vgj-f3rg",
  "modified": "2022-05-17T03:31:25Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T03:31:25Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1770"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://support.apple.com/HT206167"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035363"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-RRC7-8W2H-XW89

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-08-12 15:30 – Updated: 2026-03-19 18:31
VLAI
Details

A vulnerability was found in OpenShift AI that allows for authentication bypass and privilege escalation across models within the same namespace. When deploying AI models, the UI provides the option to protect models with authentication. However, credentials from one model can be used to access other models and APIs within the same namespace. The exposed ServiceAccount tokens, visible in the UI, can be utilized with oc --token={token} to exploit the elevated view privileges associated with the ServiceAccount, leading to unauthorized access to additional resources.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-7557"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-284",
      "CWE-305"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-08-12T13:38:43Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "A vulnerability was found in OpenShift AI that allows for authentication bypass and privilege escalation across models within the same namespace. When deploying AI models, the UI provides the option to protect models with authentication. However, credentials from one model can be used to access other models and APIs within the same namespace. The exposed ServiceAccount tokens, visible in the UI, can be utilized with oc --token={token} to exploit the elevated view privileges associated with the ServiceAccount, leading to unauthorized access to additional resources.",
  "id": "GHSA-rrc7-8w2h-xw89",
  "modified": "2026-03-19T18:31:14Z",
  "published": "2024-08-12T15:30:52Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7557"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/opendatahub-io/odh-dashboard/pull/3198"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7557"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2303094"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-RRFC-JXG2-MW47

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:33 – Updated: 2023-10-16 18:30
VLAI
Details

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to bypass authorization and modify the configuration of an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient authorization checking on an affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to the web-based management interface of an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain privileges beyond what would normally be authorized for their configured user authorization level. This could allow the attacker to modify the configuration of an affected system.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2020-3592"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-284",
      "CWE-863"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2020-11-06T19:15:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to bypass authorization and modify the configuration of an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient authorization checking on an affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to the web-based management interface of an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain privileges beyond what would normally be authorized for their configured user authorization level. This could allow the attacker to modify the configuration of an affected system.",
  "id": "GHSA-rrfc-jxg2-mw47",
  "modified": "2023-10-16T18:30:24Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T17:33:22Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-3592"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-vmanuafw-ZHkdGGEy"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-RRM7-Q958-J87Q

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-16 15:30 – Updated: 2025-10-16 15:30
VLAI
Details

An improper access control vulnerability exists in multiple WSO2 products due to insufficient permission enforcement in certain internal SOAP Admin Services and System REST APIs. A low-privileged user may exploit this flaw to perform unauthorized operations, including accessing server-level information.

This vulnerability affects only internal administrative interfaces. APIs exposed through the WSO2 API Manager's API Gateway remain unaffected.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-9804"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-284"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-10-16T13:15:42Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
  },
  "details": "An improper access control vulnerability exists in multiple WSO2 products due to insufficient permission enforcement in certain internal SOAP Admin Services and System REST APIs. A low-privileged user may exploit this flaw to perform unauthorized operations, including accessing server-level information.\n\nThis vulnerability affects only internal administrative interfaces. APIs exposed through the WSO2 API Manager\u0027s API Gateway remain unaffected.",
  "id": "GHSA-rrm7-q958-j87q",
  "modified": "2025-10-16T15:30:43Z",
  "published": "2025-10-16T15:30:42Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9804"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2025/WSO2-2025-4503"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-RRP6-4J2R-8QVQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 03:30 – Updated: 2025-04-12 12:59
VLAI
Details

epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc in the NCP dissector in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not properly initialize memory for search patterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2016-4076"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-284"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2016-04-25T10:59:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "epan/dissectors/packet-ncp2222.inc in the NCP dissector in Wireshark 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not properly initialize memory for search patterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.",
  "id": "GHSA-rrp6-4j2r-8qvq",
  "modified": "2025-04-12T12:59:12Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T03:30:52Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4076"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11591"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ea8e6955fcff21333c203bc00f69d5025761459b"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=ea8e6955fcff21333c203bc00f69d5025761459b"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035685"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-19.html"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

Mitigation MIT-1
Architecture and Design Operation

Very carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.

Mitigation MIT-46
Architecture and Design

Strategy: Separation of Privilege

  • Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.
CAPEC-19: Embedding Scripts within Scripts

An adversary leverages the capability to execute their own script by embedding it within other scripts that the target software is likely to execute due to programs' vulnerabilities that are brought on by allowing remote hosts to execute scripts.

CAPEC-441: Malicious Logic Insertion

An adversary installs or adds malicious logic (also known as malware) into a seemingly benign component of a fielded system. This logic is often hidden from the user of the system and works behind the scenes to achieve negative impacts. With the proliferation of mass digital storage and inexpensive multimedia devices, Bluetooth and 802.11 support, new attack vectors for spreading malware are emerging for things we once thought of as innocuous greeting cards, picture frames, or digital projectors. This pattern of attack focuses on systems already fielded and used in operation as opposed to systems and their components that are still under development and part of the supply chain.

CAPEC-478: Modification of Windows Service Configuration

An adversary exploits a weakness in access control to modify the execution parameters of a Windows service. The goal of this attack is to execute a malicious binary in place of an existing service.

CAPEC-479: Malicious Root Certificate

An adversary exploits a weakness in authorization and installs a new root certificate on a compromised system. Certificates are commonly used for establishing secure TLS/SSL communications within a web browser. When a user attempts to browse a website that presents a certificate that is not trusted an error message will be displayed to warn the user of the security risk. Depending on the security settings, the browser may not allow the user to establish a connection to the website. Adversaries have used this technique to avoid security warnings prompting users when compromised systems connect over HTTPS to adversary controlled web servers that spoof legitimate websites in order to collect login credentials.

CAPEC-502: Intent Spoof

An adversary, through a previously installed malicious application, issues an intent directed toward a specific trusted application's component in an attempt to achieve a variety of different objectives including modification of data, information disclosure, and data injection. Components that have been unintentionally exported and made public are subject to this type of an attack. If the component trusts the intent's action without verififcation, then the target application performs the functionality at the adversary's request, helping the adversary achieve the desired negative technical impact.

CAPEC-503: WebView Exposure

An adversary, through a malicious web page, accesses application specific functionality by leveraging interfaces registered through WebView's addJavascriptInterface API. Once an interface is registered to WebView through addJavascriptInterface, it becomes global and all pages loaded in the WebView can call this interface.

CAPEC-536: Data Injected During Configuration

An attacker with access to data files and processes on a victim's system injects malicious data into critical operational data during configuration or recalibration, causing the victim's system to perform in a suboptimal manner that benefits the adversary.

CAPEC-546: Incomplete Data Deletion in a Multi-Tenant Environment

An adversary obtains unauthorized information due to insecure or incomplete data deletion in a multi-tenant environment. If a cloud provider fails to completely delete storage and data from former cloud tenants' systems/resources, once these resources are allocated to new, potentially malicious tenants, the latter can probe the provided resources for sensitive information still there.

CAPEC-550: Install New Service

When an operating system starts, it also starts programs called services or daemons. Adversaries may install a new service which will be executed at startup (on a Windows system, by modifying the registry). The service name may be disguised by using a name from a related operating system or benign software. Services are usually run with elevated privileges.

CAPEC-551: Modify Existing Service

When an operating system starts, it also starts programs called services or daemons. Modifying existing services may break existing services or may enable services that are disabled/not commonly used.

CAPEC-552: Install Rootkit

An adversary exploits a weakness in authentication to install malware that alters the functionality and information provide by targeted operating system API calls. Often referred to as rootkits, it is often used to hide the presence of programs, files, network connections, services, drivers, and other system components.

CAPEC-556: Replace File Extension Handlers

When a file is opened, its file handler is checked to determine which program opens the file. File handlers are configuration properties of many operating systems. Applications can modify the file handler for a given file extension to call an arbitrary program when a file with the given extension is opened.

CAPEC-558: Replace Trusted Executable

An adversary exploits weaknesses in privilege management or access control to replace a trusted executable with a malicious version and enable the execution of malware when that trusted executable is called.

CAPEC-562: Modify Shared File

An adversary manipulates the files in a shared location by adding malicious programs, scripts, or exploit code to valid content. Once a user opens the shared content, the tainted content is executed.

CAPEC-563: Add Malicious File to Shared Webroot

An adversaries may add malicious content to a website through the open file share and then browse to that content with a web browser to cause the server to execute the content. The malicious content will typically run under the context and permissions of the web server process, often resulting in local system or administrative privileges depending on how the web server is configured.

CAPEC-564: Run Software at Logon

Operating system allows logon scripts to be run whenever a specific user or users logon to a system. If adversaries can access these scripts, they may insert additional code into the logon script. This code can allow them to maintain persistence or move laterally within an enclave because it is executed every time the affected user or users logon to a computer. Modifying logon scripts can effectively bypass workstation and enclave firewalls. Depending on the access configuration of the logon scripts, either local credentials or a remote administrative account may be necessary.

CAPEC-578: Disable Security Software

An adversary exploits a weakness in access control to disable security tools so that detection does not occur. This can take the form of killing processes, deleting registry keys so that tools do not start at run time, deleting log files, or other methods.