CAPEC 466 Leveraging Active Adversary in the Middle Attacks to Bypass Same Origin Policy

Draft Standard Unknown Risk
Severity Medium

Description

An attacker leverages an adversary in the middle attack (CAPEC-94) in order to bypass the same origin policy protection in the victim's browser. This active adversary in the middle attack could be launched, for instance, when the victim is connected to a public WIFI hot spot. An attacker is able to intercept requests and responses between the victim's browser and some non-sensitive website that does not use TLS.

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