CAPEC-278

Web Services Protocol Manipulation
Draft
2014-06-23
00h00 +00:00
2019-04-04
00h00 +00:00
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Descriptions CAPEC

An adversary manipulates a web service related protocol to cause a web application or service to react differently than intended. This can either be performed through the manipulation of call parameters to include unexpected values, or by changing the called function to one that should normally be restricted or limited. By leveraging this pattern of attack, the adversary is able to gain access to data or resources normally restricted, or to cause the application or service to crash.

Informations CAPEC

Prerequisites

The targeted application or service must rely on web service protocols in such a way that malicious manipulation of them can alter functionality.

Resources Required

The attacker must be able to manipulate the communications to the targeted application or service.

Mitigations

Design: Range, size and value and consistency verification for any arguments supplied to applications and services from external sources and devise appropriate error response.
Design: Ensure that function calls that should not be called by an unprivileged user are not accessible to them.

Related Weaknesses

CWE-ID Weakness Name

CWE-707

 Improper Neutralization
The product does not ensure or incorrectly ensures that structured messages or data are well-formed and that certain security properties are met before being read from an upstream component or sent to a downstream component.

Submission

Name Organization Date Date release
CAPEC Content Team The MITRE Corporation 2014-06-23 +00:00

Modifications

Name Organization Date Comment
CAPEC Content Team The MITRE Corporation 2018-07-31 +00:00 Updated Attack_Prerequisites, Description Summary, Resources_Required, Solutions_and_Mitigations
CAPEC Content Team The MITRE Corporation 2019-04-04 +00:00 Updated Related_Weaknesses