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	"title": "CAPEC-479: Malicious Root Certificate (Version 3.9)",
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	"plain_text": "CAPEC-479: Malicious Root Certificate (Version 3.9)\r\nArchived: 2026-04-05 16:42:14 UTC\r\n Description\r\nAn adversary exploits a weakness in authorization and installs a new root certificate on a compromised system. Certificates\r\nare commonly used for establishing secure TLS/SSL communications within a web browser. When a user attempts to\r\nbrowse a website that presents a certificate that is not trusted an error message will be displayed to warn the user of the\r\nsecurity risk. Depending on the security settings, the browser may not allow the user to establish a connection to the website.\r\nAdversaries have used this technique to avoid security warnings prompting users when compromised systems connect over\r\nHTTPS to adversary controlled web servers that spoof legitimate websites in order to collect login credentials.\r\n Likelihood Of Attack\r\n Typical Severity\r\n Relationships\r\nThis table shows the other attack patterns and high level categories that are related to this attack pattern. These\r\nrelationships are defined as ChildOf and ParentOf, and give insight to similar items that may exist at higher and lower levels\r\nof abstraction. In addition, relationships such as CanFollow, PeerOf, and CanAlsoBe are defined to show similar attack\r\npatterns that the user may want to explore.\r\nNature Type\r\nChildOf Standard Attack Pattern - A standard level attack pattern in CAPEC is focused on a specific methodology or technique used in an attack. It\r\nThis table shows the views that this attack pattern belongs to and top level categories within that view.\r\n Prerequisites\r\nThe adversary must have the ability to create a new root certificate.\r\n Taxonomy Mappings\r\nCAPEC mappings to ATT\u0026CK techniques leverage an inheritance model to streamline and minimize direct\r\nCAPEC/ATT\u0026CK mappings. Inheritance of a mapping is indicated by text stating that the parent CAPEC has relevant\r\nATT\u0026CK mappings. Note that the ATT\u0026CK Enterprise Framework does not use an inheritance model as part of the\r\nmapping to CAPEC.\r\nRelevant to the ATT\u0026CK taxonomy mapping (also see parent)\r\nEntry ID Entry Name\r\n1553.004 Subvert Trust Controls:Install Root Certificate\r\n Content History\r\nSubmissions\r\nSubmission Date Submitter Organization\r\n2018-04-26\r\n(Version 2.11)\r\nCAPEC Content Team The MITRE Corporation\r\nModifications\r\nModification Date Modifier Organization\r\n2020-07-30\r\n(Version 3.3)\r\nCAPEC Content Team The MITRE Corporation\r\nUpdated Taxonomy_Mappings\r\nMore information is available — Please select a different filter.\r\nhttps://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/479.html\r\nPage 1 of 2\n\nSource: https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/479.html\r\nhttps://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/479.html\r\nPage 2 of 2",
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