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Attackers manipulate the settings of the system to cause the application to behave in unexpected ways.  
 
Attackers manipulate the settings of the system to cause the application to behave in unexpected ways.  
  
NOTE: The title was originally from [[CVE|http://www.cve.mitre.org/]] and was intended to be used for a vulnerability. We believe this title is more appropriate for an attack. The corresponding vulnerability is [[Allowing External Setting Manipulation]]
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NOTE: The title was originally from [CVE http://www.cve.mitre.org/] and was intended to be used for a vulnerability. We believe this title is more appropriate for an attack. The corresponding vulnerability is [[Allowing External Setting Manipulation]]
  
 
==Examples ==
 
==Examples ==

Revision as of 17:06, 5 July 2006

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Description

Attackers manipulate the settings of the system to cause the application to behave in unexpected ways.

NOTE: The title was originally from [CVE http://www.cve.mitre.org/] and was intended to be used for a vulnerability. We believe this title is more appropriate for an attack. The corresponding vulnerability is Allowing External Setting Manipulation

Examples

  • An application takes a user-controllable parameter in the HTTP request to decide whether to turn on the debug mode.
  • The serialized object that stores the current system status can be overwritten by user input.

Related Threats

Related Attacks

Related Vulnerabilities

Allowing External Setting Manipulation

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