CAPEC™ 176: Configuration/Environment Manipulation

Description

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.

Source: CAPEC™ 176

ASVS (5.0): 1.3.8, 13.1.1, 13.2.2, 13.2.3, 13.2.4, 13.3.2, 13.4.1, 13.4.7, 14.2.4, 15.2.5, 16.3.2, 16.3.3, 16.3.4, 3.7.5, 8.1.1, 8.1.3, 8.1.4, 8.2.1, 8.2.4, 8.3.1, 8.3.2, 8.3.3, 8.4.2

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