T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood

Adversaries may target resource intensive features of applications to cause a denial of service (DoS), denying availability to those applications. For example, specific features in web applications may be highly resource intensive. Repeated requests to those features may be able to exhaust system resources and deny access to the application or the server itself.(Citation: Arbor AnnualDoSreport Jan 2018)

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VERIS Mappings

Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name Notes
action.hacking.vector.Partner Partner connection or credential. (Indicates supply chain breach.) related-to T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood
action.social.vector.Software Software related-to T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood
action.hacking.variety.DoS Denial of service related-to T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood
action.malware.variety.DoS DoS attack related-to T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood
attribute.availability.variety.Degradation Performance degradation related-to T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood
attribute.availability.variety.Loss Loss related-to T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood