Compromise the satellite platform starting from a compromised payload: Inter-Task Compromise

ID Name
T2046.001 Inter-Task Compromise
T2046.002 Inter-Application Compromise

A compromised task is able to exploit inadequate memory isolation policies and compromise the Confidentiality, Integrity and/or Availability of another task's assets. The two tasks are running in the same execution environment. [1]

ID: T2046.001
Sub-technique of:  T2046
Platforms: Space Segment
Contributors: Vissarion Moutafis
Version: 0.3
Created: 24 June 2025
Last Modified: 07 January 2026

Mitigations

This type of attack technique cannot be easily mitigated with preventive controls since it is based on the abuse of system features.

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