CAPEC-554

Functionality Bypass
Medium
High
Draft
2015-12-07
00h00 +00:00
2021-06-24
00h00 +00:00
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Descriptions CAPEC

An adversary attacks a system by bypassing some or all functionality intended to protect it. Often, a system user will think that protection is in place, but the functionality behind those protections has been disabled by the adversary.

Informations CAPEC

Related Weaknesses

CWE-ID Weakness Name

CWE-424

 Improper Protection of Alternate Path
The product does not sufficiently protect all possible paths that a user can take to access restricted functionality or resources.

CWE-1299

 Missing Protection Mechanism for Alternate Hardware Interface
The lack of protections on alternate paths to access control-protected assets (such as unprotected shadow registers and other external facing unguarded interfaces) allows an attacker to bypass existing protections to the asset that are only performed against the primary path.

Submission

Name Organization Date Date release
CAPEC Content Team The MITRE Corporation 2015-12-07 +00:00

Modifications

Name Organization Date Comment
CAPEC Content Team The MITRE Corporation 2019-04-04 +00:00 Updated Related_Weaknesses
CAPEC Content Team The MITRE Corporation 2021-06-24 +00:00 Updated Related_Weaknesses
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