CAPECattack pattern
CAPEC-272 Protocol Manipulation
Medium
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- Abstraction
- Meta
- Status
- Draft
- Typical severity
- Medium
- CAPEC version
- 3.9
Description
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.
Related
Referenced by CAPEC · child of (5)
- CAPEC-220 Client-Server Protocol Manipulation attack pattern
- CAPEC-276 Inter-component Protocol Manipulation attack pattern
- CAPEC-277 Data Interchange Protocol Manipulation attack pattern
- CAPEC-278 Web Services Protocol Manipulation attack pattern
- CAPEC-90 Reflection Attack in Authentication Protocol attack pattern