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

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

In hypervisor environments, compromising one guest application could lead to unauthorized interactions with other applications, exploiting weaknesses in spatial or temporal isolation. This was evidenced by proof of concept attacks exploiting the hypervisor’s scheduling policies.

ID: T2046.002
Sub-technique of:  T2046
Platforms: Space Segment
Contributors: Vissarion Moutafis
Version: 0.2
Created: 24 June 2025
Last Modified: 24 June 2025

Mitigations

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