CAPEC-176: Configuration/Environment Manipulation

An attacker manipulates files or settings external to a target application which affect the behavior of that application. For example, many applications use external configuration files and libraries - modification of these entities or otherwise affecting the application's ability to use them would constitute a configuration/environment manipulation attack.

Medium
Severity
3
occurrences in scenarios
Frequency
2
Affected Components
2
Affected Scenarios

Requirements and Mitigations

Requirements

Component properties that must be true for this threat to apply:

Mitigations

Component properties that mitigate this threat:

Affected Components

Component Description Boundary
doc_to_pixels.py Reads a suspicious documents and converts it to pixels gVisor sandbox
LibreOffice Converts documents to PDFs gVisor sandbox

Affected Scenarios

convert — affects: doc_to_pixels.py LibreOffice
convert_basic — affects: doc_to_pixels.py

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