Standard attack pattern
Draft
CAPEC-20: Encryption Brute Forcing
An attacker, armed with the cipher text and the encryption algorithm used, performs an exhaustive (brute force) search on the key space to determine the key that decrypts the cipher text to obtain the plaintext.
Low
Typical severity
Per MITRE
Low
Likelihood of attack
Per MITRE
4
Related weaknesses
CWEs this targets
Standard
Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
CAPEC-20 (Encryption Brute Forcing) is a standard-level attack pattern catalogued by MITRE in the Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC). It describes a recurring method attackers use to exploit software weaknesses.