CAPEC-51

Detailed Abstraction Level
Meta — Very abstract, high-level category
Standard — Specific enough to understand
Detailed — Tied to specific technique Draft MITRE CAPEC Status
Stable — Fully reviewed and complete
Draft — Under development
Incomplete — Partially defined
Deprecated — No longer recommended
Obsolete — Replaced by another CAPEC Likelihood: High Severity: Very High
Poison Web Service Registry

Description

SOA and Web Services often use a registry to perform look up, get schema information, and metadata about services. A poisoned registry can redirect (think phishing for servers) the service requester to a malicious service provider, provide incorrect information in schema or metadata, and delete information about service provider interfaces.

Prerequisites

The attacker must be able to write to resources or redirect access to the service registry.

Mitigations

Design: Enforce principle of least privilege

Design: Harden registry server and file access permissions

Implementation: Implement communications to and from the registry using secure protocols

Skills Required

[Low] To identify and execute against an over-privileged system interface