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Cache Poisoning

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

Malicious or misleading data from a remote name server is saved [cached] by another name server. Typically used with DNS cache poisoning attacks.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Cache Poisonings
possessive
Cache Poisoning's
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Cache Poisonings'