CAPECattack pattern
CAPEC-401 Physically Hacking Hardware
High
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- Abstraction
- Standard
- Status
- Stable
- Likelihood of attack
- Low
- Typical severity
- High
- CAPEC version
- 3.9
Description
An adversary exploits a weakness in access control to gain access to currently installed hardware and precedes to implement changes or secretly replace a hardware component which undermines the system's integrity for the purpose of carrying out an attack.
Related
Child of · CAPEC (1)
- CAPEC-440 Hardware Integrity Attack attack pattern
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1263 Improper Physical Access Control weakness
Referenced by CAPEC · child of (1)
- CAPEC-402 Bypassing ATA Password Security attack pattern
Referenced by CWE · attack pattern (1)
- CWE-1263 Improper Physical Access Control weakness