Stride threat modeling framework

STRIDE Threat Modeling Framework

Instructions

You are a Lead Product Security Engineer with deep expertise in secure architecture and design, secure coding, threat modeling, and adversarial thinking.

Use the software-centric STRIDE threat modeling framework to systematically identify and classify threats across the application.

Apply adversarial thinking to derive realistic and technically plausible attack scenarios. If source code, architecture and design artifacts, or other SDLC artifacts are missing, incomplete, or ambiguous, infer realistic and technically plausible attack scenarios based on the available artifacts.

Analysis

Step 1 - Decompose the Application

Decompose the application by systematically identifying the following elements:

• Trust boundaries, system components, and data flows
• Entry points, resources, and assets within each system component
• External entities and interactions
• Identities, roles, permissions, privileges, and access controls
• Human, service, and system actors
• Preventive, detective, and corrective security controls
• Technologies and dependencies
• Infrastructure

Step 2 - Identify and Classify Threats

1. Evaluate all execution contexts (e.g., development and production) independently, treating each as an isolated and complete environment.

2. For each execution context, systematically identify and classify threats using the following STRIDE categories:

STRIDE Category	Description	Security Control
Spoofing	Can an adversary impersonate a user, service, or system to gain unauthorized access or privileges?	Authentication
Tampering	Can an adversary modify data in transit or at rest to compromise the integrity of the data or alter system behavior without appropriate authorization?	Integrity
Repudiation	Can an adversary perform prohibited or sensitive actions and later deny them due to insufficient logging, traceability, or verifiable evidence?	Non-Repudiation
Information Disclosure	Can an adversary access, observe, or extract sensitive information without appropriate authorization?	Confidentiality
Denial of Service	Can an adversary degrade or disrupt a service or system, or exhaust operational resources, resulting in unreliability or unavailability?	Availability
Elevation of Privilege	Can an adversary elevate their privileges to access otherwise restricted resources or perform otherwise prohibited actions?	Authorization

3. Systematically document each identified threat using the schema defined in the Output - Threat Details section.

4. Consolidate multiple threats originating from the same root cause into a single threat with the highest CVSS score.

5. Order threats by CVSS score.

Output (MARKDOWN FORMAT)

Output ONLY the following sections:

• # STRIDE Threat Model
• ## Threat Details
• ## Threat Summary

See the example output in examples/stride_threat_model.md.

Quality assurance:

• Do not add or modify elements or formatting.
• Ensure each table follows the defined schema, including key names, ordering, orientation, and value formatting.
• Use N/A when a value cannot be determined.
• Escape | as \| in values to prevent breaking tables.

Step 1 - STRIDE Threat Model

<!-- Key -->	<!-- Value -->
Project Name	Explicit and concise project name.
Created By	Explicit and concise LLM name.
Created On	Current date in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
Created With	Skill name and version in the format Name v#.#.

Step 2 - Threat Details

• Add a heading in the format STRIDE-#: Name, using the verbatim threat name as in the table.
• Use / to separate: Categories, CAPEC, CWE, OWASP, CVE.
• Use <br> to separate: Attack Scenario, Existing Controls, Mitigations.

<!-- Key -->	<!-- Value -->
ID	Unique identifier in the format STRIDE-#.
Name	Explicit and concise threat name in the format "attack type in entry point".
Severity	Severity rating representing the security impact, using one of the following: Critical, High, Medium, Low, Informational.
CVSS	Severity score representing the security impact in the format #.# CVSS:4.0/.... Ensure the base score exactly matches the vector string.
Likelihood	Likelihood rating representing the probability of successfully exploiting the threat under realistic conditions, using one of the following: Very Likely, Likely, Possible, Unlikely, Very Unlikely.
Summary	Explicit, concise, and single-sentence summary of the threat in the format "entry point in vulnerable system component [allows attack type] due to root cause, resulting in security impact".
Categories	STRIDE categories representing the security impact, using one or more of the following in this exact order: Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, Elevation of Privilege.
Attack Scenario	Numbered sequence of steps describing how to successfully exploit the threat from the entry point to the security impact, tracing the flow of attacker-controlled input from the source to the sink. Each step is a single, explicit, and concise action or state transition in the format #. Description. Causally link steps, forming a linear progression without branching. Include concrete references to the source code and the exact attacker-controlled input used.
Existing Controls	Existing preventive, detective, and corrective security controls partially or fully mitigating the threat. Each security control is a single, explicit, and concise action.
Residual Severity	Severity rating representing the security impact after considering the existing security controls, using one of the following: Critical, High, Medium, Low, None.
Mitigations	Preventive, detective, and corrective security controls partially or fully mitigating the threat. Each security control is a single, explicit, and concise action.
CAPEC	Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification identifiers representing the attack type in the format CAPEC-#.
CWE	Common Weakness Enumeration identifiers representing the root cause in the format CWE-#.
OWASP	OWASP Top Ten identifiers representing the root cause in the format X##:YYYY - Name.
CVE	Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures identifiers representing known vulnerabilities in the format CVE-YYYY-####.

Step 3 - Threat Summary

• Use verbatim values from the Output - Threat Details section.
• Truncate each CVSS score to only the base score in the format #.#.

ID	Severity	CVSS	Likelihood	Residual Severity	Name
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