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, a compromised guest application can abuse design or implementation issues to interact with another application. The results of this actions is unintended behavior of the system that could possibly corrupt the systems nominal execution and break the spatial isolation promise of the hypervisor. [1]

ID: T2046.002
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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