Skip to content

Enum: AttackEffectivePermissionsEnum (DEPRECATED)

DEPRECATED in ATT&CK Specification v3.3.0. Will be removed in v4.0.0. Closed enumeration of the effective Windows or Unix permission levels that an adversary achieves after successfully exploiting a technique. Only four values are recognized.

URI: attack:AttackEffectivePermissionsEnum

Permissible Values

Value Meaning Description
Administrator None Windows Administrator-level permissions (local or domain admin)
SYSTEM None Windows SYSTEM account privileges — highest built-in Windows privilege level
User None Standard unprivileged user-level permissions
root None Unix/Linux root (superuser) privileges

Slots

Name Description
x_mitre_effective_permissions DEPRECATED in ATT&CK Specification v3

In Subsets

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://w3id.org/lmodel/attack

LinkML Source

name: AttackEffectivePermissionsEnum
description: DEPRECATED in ATT&CK Specification v3.3.0. Will be removed in v4.0.0.
  Closed enumeration of the effective Windows or Unix permission levels that an adversary
  achieves after successfully exploiting a technique. Only four values are recognized.
deprecated: Deprecated in ATT&CK Specification v3.3.0; will be removed in v4.0.0.
in_subset:
- deprecated
from_schema: https://w3id.org/lmodel/attack
rank: 1000
permissible_values:
  Administrator:
    text: Administrator
    description: Windows Administrator-level permissions (local or domain admin).
  SYSTEM:
    text: SYSTEM
    description: Windows SYSTEM account privileges — highest built-in Windows privilege
      level.
  User:
    text: User
    description: Standard unprivileged user-level permissions.
  root:
    text: root
    description: Unix/Linux root (superuser) privileges.