Saturation/Exhaustion of Spacecraft Resources: Hypervisor Scheduling Compromise

A malicious applications compromises the underlying hypervisor's scheduler by delaying or forcing changes in the scheduling. This behavior impacts the behavior of the other applications running in the same context and potentially leads the system to misbehave and break the spatial isolation promise. [1]

ID: T2053.007
Sub-technique of:  T2053
Tactic: Impact
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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