Structural hazards (T)

October 31, 2026

Taxonomies › Software factory › Structural hazards

The whole factory · 10 hazards · prefix T

These ten hazards are properties of the software factory itself, so no single station can fix them. Apply them to the whole design after the stations.

Scope: Hazards of the software factory as a whole.

Table: Structural hazards (T), 10 hazards with their mitigation principles and design measures. The full text is in the PDF and Excel downloads on the software factory taxonomy overview page.

Text version: every entry on this page is in the PDF and Excel downloads on the overview page, where it can be searched and copied.

The hazards

T10 Transitive Trust
T9 Names That Move
T8 The Pipeline Outranks Everyone
T7 Running Strangers’ Code Is the Job
T6 The Guard Is Inside the Wall
T5 Checked Is Not Run
T4 Configuration Is Code
T3 Self-Propagation
T2 Shared Fate
T1 Evidence Lives Where the Attacker Works

Seen in the wild

T10 Transitive Trust: SolarWinds (2020).
T9 Names That Move: trivy-action (2026).
T8 The Pipeline Outranks Everyone: Codecov (2021).
T7 Running Strangers’ Code Is the Job: Shai-Hulud (2025).
T6 The Guard Is Inside the Wall: Trivy and KICS (2026).
T3 Self-Propagation: Shai-Hulud (2025).
T2 Shared Fate: tj-actions (2025).

Sources for each case are listed on the overview page.

STRIDE, CAPEC and CWE

Of the 10 entries here, STRIDE fits 5 cleanly and 5 only loosely. CAPEC 3.9 has a pattern that describes 1 of them directly, and only a generic parent pattern for 9. CWE 4.20 names the weakness directly for 2, has only a broader weakness for 7, and nothing for 1. The table below gives the mapping entry by entry, with the names of the CAPEC patterns and CWE weaknesses; what the mapping shows across the whole taxonomy is in Mapping the Software Factory Threat Taxonomy to STRIDE, CAPEC and CWE. The Excel, SKOS and STIX downloads carry the same mapping as text.

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