CAPEC-122 Privilege Abuse

abstraction: metastatus: active

An adversary is able to exploit features of the target that should be reserved for privileged users or administrators but are exposed to use by lower or non-privileged accounts. Access to sensitive information and functionality must be controlled to ensure that only authorized users are able to access these resources.

likelihood: Highseverity: Medium
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related attack patterns (5)

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