CAPEC-175 Code Inclusion

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.

• 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.