---
type: "term"
title: "Exploiting Server (#2)"
description: "A threat cluster where an attacker targets and leverages implementation flaws within a component acting in a server role."
resource: "tlctc:term:exploiting-server-2"
tags:
  - "glossary"
---
# Exploiting Server (#2)

A threat cluster where an attacker targets and leverages implementation flaws within a component acting in a server role. These vulnerabilities allow manipulation of server behavior or unauthorized access using Exploit Code, forcing a data→code transition where exploit code executes as new, foreign code in the server context. The generic vulnerability is that server-side implementation flaws enable unintended behavior. "Implementation" is substrate-neutral — the flawed logic may live in application source code, firmware, microcode, or hardware logic; per R-SUBSTRATE, the location of a flaw never determines the cluster, the role of the flawed component does.

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