active attack

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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An attack on the authentication protocol where the Attacker transmits data to the Claimant, Credential Service Provider, Verifier, or Relying Party. Examples of active attacks include man-in-the-middle, impersonation, and session hijacking.

polysemousMWE

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: active attacks
possessive: active attack's
pluralpossessive: active attacks'

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