CAPEC-22MetaDraft
Exploiting Trust in Client
An attack of this type exploits vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by communicating directly with the server where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
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CWE-20
The product receives input or data, but it does.
CWE-200
The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
CWE-287
When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.
CWE-290
This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks.
CWE-693
The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product.
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