Compliance Node Overview
MITRE CAPEC-173 (Action Spoofing) is a meta-level attack pattern in the MITRE Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification. An adversary is able to disguise one action for another and therefore trick a user into initiating one type of action when they intend to initiate a different action. For example, a user might be led to believe that clicking a button will submit a query, but in fact it downloads software. Likelihood of attack: High. Typical severity: Very High. Parent pattern for CAPEC-103 Clickjacking; CAPEC-501 Android Activity Hijack; CAPEC-504 Task Impersonation; and others. Maps to weaknesses CWE-451.
Pillar: Cybersecurity · Authority: MITRE Corporation · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/173.html
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Primary Citations — 7 traced to source
- MITRE CAPEC-173: Action Spoofing (https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/173.html)
- CWE-451: underlying weakness (http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/451.html)
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