CAPEC 606 Weakening of Cellular Encryption

Draft Detailed Unknown Risk
Severity High

Description

An attacker, with control of a Cellular Rogue Base Station or through cooperation with a Malicious Mobile Network Operator can force the mobile device (e.g., the retransmission device) to use no encryption (A5/0 mode) or to use easily breakable encryption (A5/1 or A5/2 mode).

Mitigations

2

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