Event Injection

medium

event-injection

Attacker injects malicious events into event-driven systems to trigger unauthorized actions

TamperingSpoofingElevation of Privilege

MITRE ATT&CK techniques

IDNameTactic
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter Execution

Common Weakness Enumeration

Mitigating controls

ctrl-event-1
Validate event schema and content before processing
ctrl-event-2
Implement event signing and verification
ctrl-event-3
Use IAM policies to restrict event sources
ctrl-event-4
Monitor event patterns for anomalies

References