CRIME attack
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CRIME attack is a cryptographic side-channel attack that exploits compression-based information leakage in TLS/SSL to recover sensitive data such as session cookies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CRIME attack canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8489782 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: CRIME attack Context triple: [BEAST attack, relatedTo, CRIME attack]
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A.
Custom House attack
The Custom House attack was a major 1921 operation by the Irish Republican Army in Dublin, where they burned the British administrative headquarters to disrupt colonial governance during the Irish War of Independence.
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B.
Intrusion
Intrusion is a science fiction novel by Scottish author Ken MacLeod that explores themes of surveillance, personal freedom, and state control in a near-future society.
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C.
Sky Crime
Sky Crime is a British pay television channel from Sky dedicated to true crime documentaries and series.
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D.
Only Crime
Only Crime is an American hardcore punk supergroup featuring members from several notable punk bands, including Good Riddance and Bane.
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E.
Crime Wave
Crime Wave is a 1953 film noir crime drama starring Sterling Hayden as a tough police detective pursuing an ex-convict drawn back into a world of robbery and violence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: CRIME attack Target entity description: CRIME attack is a cryptographic side-channel attack that exploits compression-based information leakage in TLS/SSL to recover sensitive data such as session cookies.
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A.
Custom House attack
The Custom House attack was a major 1921 operation by the Irish Republican Army in Dublin, where they burned the British administrative headquarters to disrupt colonial governance during the Irish War of Independence.
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B.
Intrusion
Intrusion is a science fiction novel by Scottish author Ken MacLeod that explores themes of surveillance, personal freedom, and state control in a near-future society.
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C.
Sky Crime
Sky Crime is a British pay television channel from Sky dedicated to true crime documentaries and series.
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D.
Only Crime
Only Crime is an American hardcore punk supergroup featuring members from several notable punk bands, including Good Riddance and Bane.
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E.
Crime Wave
Crime Wave is a 1953 film noir crime drama starring Sterling Hayden as a tough police detective pursuing an ex-convict drawn back into a world of robbery and violence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
compression-based attack
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cryptographic attack ⓘ side-channel attack ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CRIME ⓘ |
| affects |
HTTPS connections using TLS compression
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servers with TLS compression enabled ⓘ web browsers supporting TLS compression ⓘ |
| attackType | passive traffic observation with active probing ⓘ |
| attackVector | chosen-plaintext attack ⓘ |
| canRecover |
CSRF tokens
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authentication tokens ⓘ session cookies ⓘ |
| category |
transport layer security vulnerability
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web security vulnerability ⓘ |
| CVEReference | CVE-2012-4929 ⓘ |
| disclosedAt | Ekoparty Security Conference 2012 ⓘ |
| disclosureYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| discoveredBy |
Juliano Rizzo
ⓘ
Thai Duong ⓘ |
| environment | encrypted HTTP over TLS ⓘ |
| exploits |
SPDY header compression
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TLS-level compression ⓘ compression-based information leakage ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Compression Ratio Info-leak Made Easy ⓘ |
| impact | confidentiality breach ⓘ |
| influenced |
deprecation of TLS-level compression in modern browsers
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security recommendations for TLS configuration ⓘ |
| leaks | information via compressed ciphertext length ⓘ |
| mitigation |
disabling SPDY header compression for sensitive data
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disabling TLS compression ⓘ using HTTP-only secure cookies with additional defenses ⓘ |
| notMitigatedBy | using strong ciphers alone ⓘ |
| primaryGoal |
recovery of secret data from encrypted connections
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session hijacking ⓘ |
| relatedAttack |
BREACH attack
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HEIST attack ⓘ TIME attack ⓘ |
| requires |
ability to inject data into victim’s requests
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network attacker capable of intercepting TLS traffic ⓘ |
| status | largely mitigated in modern browsers and servers by disabling compression ⓘ |
| targetsComponent | application-layer secrets embedded in compressed streams ⓘ |
| targetsProtocol |
SPDY
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SSL ⓘ TLS ⓘ |
| usesProperty | correlation between plaintext similarity and compressed size ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
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Input
Subject: CRIME attack Description of subject: CRIME attack is a cryptographic side-channel attack that exploits compression-based information leakage in TLS/SSL to recover sensitive data such as session cookies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.