CAPEC-440
Hardware Integrity Attack
An adversary exploits a weakness in the system maintenance process and causes a change to be made to a technology, product, component, or sub-component or a new one installed during its deployed use at the victim location for the purpose of carrying out an attack.
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Explain the attack pattern CAPEC-440: Hardware Integrity Attack: how it unfolds, what it needs and how to prevent and detect it in my systems. Use https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/440.html and https://cve.bz/cve/capec/440?via=ask-ai-copy, which lists recent CVEs with the weaknesses it exploits. Cite the sources.Opens a third-party assistant; its answer is its own, not cve.bz's. The prompt holds only this attack pattern's id and public links.
Prerequisites
Influence over the deployed system at a victim location.
Consequences
| Impact | Affects | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Execute Unauthorized Commands | Integrity |
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