CAPEC-272 Metadata
Likelihood of Attack
Low
Typical Severity
Medium
Overview
Summary
An adversary subverts a communications protocol to perform an attack. This type of attack can allow an adversary to impersonate others, discover sensitive information, control the outcome of a session, or perform other attacks. This type of attack targets invalid assumptions that may be inherent in implementers of the protocol, incorrect implementations of the protocol, or vulnerabilities in the protocol itself.
Prerequisites
The protocol or implementations thereof must contain bugs that an adversary can exploit.
Potential Solutions / Mitigations
No specific solutions listed.
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