General Information

Browser Reconnaissance Exfiltration via Adaptive Compression of Hypertext

Variants:
Direct 

Also Known As:
BREACH Attack

Vector Type:
Attack

Relevance:
Generic

Layer:
Web-Infrastructure-Level

Platforms:
Any

Target Type:
Web Application

Affected Mechanisms:
TLS Compression, Hardening, Communication Encryption

Invented In:
01/08/2013

Added In:
21/12/2014

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Vector Operation Method:
Abuse TLS compression and SPDY header compression features while eavesdropping to perform a cryptanalysis attack and expose secrets contained in compressed and encrypted HTTP responses


Direct Variant:

BREACH

Also Known As:
Browser Reconnaissance Exfiltration via Adaptive Compression of Hypertext

Typical Severity:
Major

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