M0938: Execution Prevention
Block execution of code on a system through application control, and/or script blocking.
Security context for executives and security teams
M0938: Execution Prevention describes Block execution of code on a system through application control, and/or script blocking.
Executive priority
M0938: Execution Prevention is an official MITRE ATT&CK mitigation. Glexia treats it as defensive behavior context for prioritizing monitoring, control validation, and response planning without using the object by itself as an attribution claim.
Technical view
Security teams should validate M0938: Execution Prevention by reviewing the official ATT&CK relationships, mapped tactics (the mapped ATT&CK tactic context), supported platforms (the platforms named in the official object), and available local telemetry before making detection or mitigation decisions.
Likely telemetry
- Official ATT&CK relationships and object metadata
Detection direction
- Validate whether M0938: Execution Prevention appears in your detection coverage and tabletop scenarios.
- Use the object to align executive risk language with SOC, incident response, and detection engineering work.
- Do not treat ATT&CK relationship context as attribution without corroborating evidence.
Mitigation priorities
- Map the object to existing controls and identify missing telemetry or response ownership.
- Prioritize mitigations that reduce exposure on the listed platforms and tactics.
- Review adjacent ATT&CK relationships before changing policy, detections, or reporting language.
Additional notes and limits
Baseline Glexia take generated from the official MITRE ATT&CK STIX object, source hash, tactics, platforms, and detection fields. It is safe to replace with a richer model-generated take for the same source hash later.
This baseline take is source-grounded and schema-validated, but it does not include environment-specific telemetry, incident evidence, or threat-intelligence corroboration.
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
Execution Prevention
Block execution of code on a system through application control, and/or script blocking.
How security teams should use this page
Treat this object as behavior context, not an attribution claim. Validate the related groups, software, data sources, and mitigations against official ATT&CK relationships and your own telemetry before making control-coverage decisions.
Techniques used
This mirrors the MITRE pattern of making group, software, campaign, and technique relationships scannable. Relationship notes come from mirrored ATT&CK relationship text when available.
| Domain | ID | Name | Relationship / procedure |
|---|---|---|---|
| ICS | T0863 | User Execution | Application control may be able to prevent the running of executables masquerading as other files. |
| ICS | T0853 | Scripting | Execution prevention may prevent malicious scripts from accessing protected resources. |
| ICS | T0894 | System Binary Proxy Execution | Disallow the execution of applications/programs which are not required for normal system functions, including any specific command-line arguments which may allow the execution of proxy commands or application binaries. |
| ICS | T0871 | Execution through API | Minimize the exposure of API calls that allow the execution of code. |
| ICS | T0834 | Native API | Minimize the exposure of API calls that allow the execution of code. |
| ICS | T0807 | Command-Line Interface | Execution prevention may block malicious software from accessing protected resources through the command line interface. |
| ICS | T0849 | Masquerading | Use tools that restrict program execution via application control by attributes other than file name for common system and application utilities. |
All related ATT&CK context
Object version and sync metadata
The fields below describe the current mirrored snapshot. When Glexia retains multiple ATT&CK source imports, you can open the table to compare the same object across releases (hashes and MITRE timestamps). For MITRE’s own release notes and roadmap, see ATT&CK resources — Updates.
Imported snapshots across ATT&CK releases(2)
| Release | Bundle imported | Object version | Modified | Status | Raw hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19.2 | 1.0 | Current bundle | 01d298abd9be… | ||
| 19.1 | 1.0 | Older bundle | 01d298abd9be… |
Mirrored ATT&CK source object
The raw object is retained through the mirrored ATT&CK source bundle and object hash. The raw endpoint returns the exact object from the mirrored bundle when available.
External references and citations
MITRE external references are preserved separately from Glexia analysis so citations remain traceable to their original source records.
- [1]mitre-attackM0938Open source URL
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