A legacy utility appliance renegotiates its management session to outdated weak ciphers after an attacker interferes with the handshake. Which cryptographic attack is occurring?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
A downgrade attack is peer pressure on the handshake—'forget modern crypto, use the old weak stuff.' The appliance gets nudged into ciphers you would never pick on purpose.
Full Explanation
Cryptographic downgrade attacks manipulate negotiation so endpoints accept weaker algorithms than they would under a clean handshake. Ransomware, DNS poisoning, and directory traversal produce different indicators and do not describe forcing weak ciphers on an appliance management connection.