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Attack Pattern

Exploit Non-Production Interfaces

CAPEC-121 · Standard · Stable
An adversary exploits a sample, demonstration, test, or debug interface that is unintentionally enabled on a production system, with the goal of gleaning information or leveraging functionality that would otherwise be unavailable.
likelihood: Low severity: High
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Targets These Weaknesses (CWE)

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The underlying weaknesses this attack pattern exploits. Follow into a CWE to see affected CVEs and its relationship tree.
CWE-1209Failure to Disable Reserved Bits
CWE-1259Improper Restriction of Security Token Assignment
CWE-1267Policy Uses Obsolete Encoding
CWE-1270Generation of Incorrect Security Tokens
CWE-1294Insecure Security Identifier Mechanism
CWE-1295Debug Messages Revealing Unnecessary Information
CWE-1296Incorrect Chaining or Granularity of Debug Components
CWE-1302Missing Source Identifier in Entity Transactions on a System-On-Chip (SOC)
CWE-1313Hardware Allows Activation of Test or Debug Logic at Runtime
CWE-489Active Debug Code
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