CAPEC-25 Forced Deadlock

abstraction: metastatus: active

The adversary triggers and exploits a deadlock condition in the target software to cause a denial of service. A deadlock can occur when two or more competing actions are waiting for each other to finish, and thus neither ever does. Deadlock conditions can be difficult to detect.

likelihood: Lowseverity: High
01

weaknesses (6)

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

02

ATT&CK techniques

ATT&CK techniques this enables or maps to.

03

source

Where this definition is published.