Channel Downgrade Attacks Archives - 7ASecurity Blog https://7asecurity.com/blog/ Helping you secure apps and websites Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:54:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://7asecurity.com/blog/contents/uploads/2019/06/favicon.ico Channel Downgrade Attacks Archives - 7ASecurity Blog https://7asecurity.com/blog/ 32 32 XMPP MitM attack via PLAIN mechanism https://7asecurity.com/blog/2023/06/xmpp-mitm-attack/ Thu, 08 Jun 2023 08:48:00 +0000 Are you testing MitM of an old protocol that starts using clear-text communications?You should consider spoofing server replies with some downgrade attack! This old trick still works sometimes against protocols that like:XMPP, SMTP, POP3 and others Let’s illustrate this with an XMPP example from the field 🙂 Introduction: In XMPP, credentials are not supposed to …

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