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.

• The cloud provider must not assuredly delete part or all of the sensitive data for which they are responsible.The adversary must have the ability to interact with the system.

• [Low] The adversary requires the ability to traverse directory structure.

• Confidentiality: Read Data

• Cloud providers should completely delete data to render it irrecoverable and inaccessible from any layer and component of infrastructure resources. • Deletion of data should be completed promptly when requested.