CAPECattack pattern
CAPEC-296 ICMP Information Request
Low
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- Abstraction
- Detailed
- Status
- Stable
- Typical severity
- Low
- CAPEC version
- 3.9
Description
An adversary sends an ICMP Information Request to a host to determine if it will respond to this deprecated mechanism. ICMP Information Requests are a deprecated message type. Information Requests were originally used for diskless machines to automatically obtain their network configuration, but this message type has been superseded by more robust protocol implementations like DHCP.
Prerequisites
• The ability to send an ICMP Type 15 Information Request and receive an ICMP Type 16 Information Reply in response.
Skills required
• [Low] The adversary needs to know certain linux commands for this type of attack.
Consequences
• Confidentiality: Other
Related
Child of · CAPEC (1)
- CAPEC-292 Host Discovery attack pattern
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
Referenced by CWE · attack pattern (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness