Man-in-the-middle attack
nounid
3207·updated May 9, 2026candidate
A form of active wiretapping attack in which the attacker intercepts and selectively modifies communicated data to masquerade as one or more of the entities involved in a communication association.
polysemousMWE
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat90%rule-basedr:entity.threat.attack.v1
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- acronym
- MitM
- plural
- Man-in-the-middle attacks
- possessive
- Man-in-the-middle attack's
- pluralpossessive
- Man-in-the-middle attacks'
Framework definitions
- §1
- An attack strategy in which the attacker intercepts the communication stream between two parts of the victim system and then replaces the traffic between the two components with the intruder’s own, eventually assuming control of the communication
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary1 senseview framework →
- §1
- Places the attacker's computer in the communication line between the server and the client. The attacker's machine can monitor and change communications.
- §1
- An attack on the authentication protocol run in which the Attacker positions himself in between the Claimant and Verifier so that he can intercept and alter data traveling between them.
- §2 · sense_2_pending_review
- A form of active wiretapping attack in which the attacker intercepts and selectively modifies communicated data to masquerade as one or more of the entities involved in a communication association.
- §1
- A form of active wiretapping attack in which the attacker intercepts and selectively modifies communicated data to masquerade as one or more of the entities involved in a communication association.
- §1
- An attack on the authentication protocol run in which the Attacker positions himself in between the Claimant and Verifier so that he can intercept and alter data traveling between them.
Outgoing relationships
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Incoming relationships
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