Eavesdropping Attack

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

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An attack in which an Attacker listens passively to the authentication protocol to capture information which can be used in a subsequent active attack to masquerade as the Claimant.

MWE

Classifications

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Entity Type

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Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Eavesdropping Attacks
possessive: Eavesdropping Attack's
pluralpossessive: Eavesdropping Attacks'

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