| CAPEC Details | |||||
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| Name | Protocol Manipulation | ||||
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| 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. | ||||
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