Privilege escalation is the gain of higher-level permissions on a system. Common approaches are to take advantage of system weaknesses, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities . Privilege Escalation consists of techniques that adversaries use to gain higher-level permissions on a system. In a limited system as the Space System is, examples are the overcoming of hypervisor's limits and controls, or the abuse of bus’s hierarchy.
| ID | Name | Description | |
| T2031 | Become Avionics Bus Master | An attacker can use a compromised device connected to an Avionics Bus to interact with the line and force the election to become the Bus master. This role can be used to disrupt the communication between other nodes. | |
| T1611 | Escape to Host | If containers or hypervisors are used, an attacker could overcome the container fences and gain access to the host system. Separations between applications may be defeated, and malicious operations could affect other functionalities. This attack can leverage common utilities, schedulers, shared memory, or vulnerabilities. | |
| .001 | Exploitation of vulnerabilities | An attacker can exploiting unpatched/outdated containers or hypervisors to escape it | |