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{
  "id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1059.008",
  "title": "Network Device CLI",
  "type": "Subtechnique",
  "source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/008",
  "snapshot": "enterprise-attack-20.0.json",
  "status": "active",
  "rights": "Source metadata only; source notices retained; no operational prose or payloads",
  "review_status": "machine-extracted; source-specific checks passed, editorial review pending",
  "stix_id": "attack-pattern--818302b2-d640-477b-bf88-873120ce85c4",
  "external_id": "T1059.008",
  "domain": "enterprise",
  "created": "2020-10-20T00:09:33.072Z",
  "modified": "2026-05-12T15:12:00.670Z",
  "version": "1.2",
  "aliases": [

  ],
  "tactics": [
    "execution"
  ],
  "source_references": [
    {
      "source_name": "Cisco IOS Software Integrity Assurance - Command History",
      "url": "https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/resources/integrity_assurance.html#23"
    },
    {
      "source_name": "Cisco Synful Knock Evolution",
      "url": "https://blogs.cisco.com/security/evolution-of-attacks-on-cisco-ios-devices"
    }
  ]
}

Explicit source assertions (10)

First 80 shown here; the complete set is in this record’s JSON and plaintext. Each relationship retains its source and locator. No inferred relationships are added.

ATTACK:enterprise:C0063 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1059.008

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--09e5a2d0-3af9-4bea-95cc-61af0b15f125

ATTACK:enterprise:C0056 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1059.008

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--415b324e-351f-448f-b99f-3f3d28ace516

Juniper RedPenguin MAR 2025 · Mandiant UNC3886 Juniper Routers MAR 2025

ATTACK:enterprise:S9013 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1059.008

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--65eae1cf-0636-4209-8185-104aeb671198

Google UNC5221 Ivanti January 2025 · Picus Security UNC5221 Ivanti May 2025

ATTACK:enterprise:T1059.008 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1059

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--74192d82-680f-412e-80df-27b86fdfa20c

ATTACK:enterprise:G1045 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1059.008

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--8815c0f8-5b2c-47a7-9fb5-92268d8be174

CISA_AA25-239ASaltTyphoon_Sept2025

ATTACK:enterprise:M1038 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1059.008

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--950d7968-6a24-44aa-8a17-4a9c5cb64f96

Cisco IOS Software Integrity Assurance - TACACS

ATTACK:enterprise:S1186 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1059.008

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--c0369434-f35a-40e9-bd2e-21bba4ca20f7

CCCS ArcaneDoor 2024 · Cisco ArcaneDoor 2024

ATTACK:enterprise:S9014 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1059.008

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--e47457bf-aa6a-414c-89df-78b442e116dc

Google UNC5221 Ivanti January 2025

ATTACK:enterprise:M1026 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1059.008

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--edbdc10d-a3d6-46f8-9354-ba06995dce08

Cisco IOS Software Integrity Assurance - AAA · Cisco IOS Software Integrity Assurance - TACACS

ATTACK:enterprise:M1018 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1059.008

MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.

Assertion source · Locator: relationship--f63970b4-a3fd-4fc9-8685-2baf0ff6ffff

Cisco IOS Software Integrity Assurance - AAA

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