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Miniature fragment attack

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Using this method, an attacker fragments the IP packet into smaller ones and pushes it through the firewall, in the hope that only the first of the sequence of fragmented packets would be examined and the others would pass without review.

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Entity Type

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Sensitivity

85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

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Miniature fragment attacks
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Miniature fragment attack's
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Miniature fragment attacks'

Framework definitions

ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary1 senseview framework →
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Using this method, an attacker fragments the IP packet into smaller ones and pushes it through the firewall, in the hope that only the first of the sequence of fragmented packets would be examined and the others would pass without review.

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