An attacker manipulates the registry values used by an application to
						perform a variety of possible attacks. Many applications utilize registries
						to store configuration and service information. As such, attacks that
						manipulate these registries can affect individual services (affecting
						billing, authorization, or even allowing for identity spoofing) or the
						overall configuration of the targeted application. It is important to note
						that "registry" does not only refer to the Microsoft Windows Registry, but
						to any registry used by an application. For example, both Java RMI and SOAP
						use registries to track available services. Changing registry values is
						sometimes undertaken as part of another attack; for example, a path
						traversal (inserting relative path modifiers) or buffer overflow (enlarging
						a registry value beyond an application's ability to store it), but given the
						long term usage of many registry values, the registry manipulation could be
						its own end.