What MITRE CAPEC-41: Using Meta-characters in E-mail Headers to Inject Malicious Payloads (Detailed Attack Pattern - High Severity) requires
MITRE CAPEC-41 (Using Meta-characters in E-mail Headers to Inject Malicious Payloads) is a detailed-level attack pattern in the MITRE Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification. This type of attack involves an attacker leveraging meta-characters in email headers to inject improper behavior into email programs. Email software has become increasingly sophisticated and feature-rich. In addition, email applications are ubiquitous and connected directly to the Web making them ideal targets to launch and propagate attacks. Likelihood of attack: High. Typical severity: High. Maps to weaknesses CWE-150, CWE-88, CWE-697.
Pillar: Cybersecurity · Authority: MITRE Corporation · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/41.html
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- MITRE CAPEC-41: Using Meta-characters in E-mail Headers to Inject Malicious Payloads (https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/41.html)
- CWE-150: underlying weakness (http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/150.html)
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