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Password Brute Forcing

An adversary tries every possible value for a password until they succeed. A brute force attack, if feasible computationally, will always be successful because it will essentially go through all possible passwords given the alphabet used (lower case letters, upper case letters, numbers, symbols, etc.) and the maximum length of the password.

Technique
TypeTechnique
External ID—
First seen2026-10-17
Last seen2026-10-17

Confidence

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An adversary tries every possible value for a password until they succeed. A brute force attack, if feasible computationally, will always be successful because it will essentially go through all possible passwords given the alphabet used (lower case letters, upper case letters, numbers, symbols, etc.) and the maximum length of the password.

Labels

attack-patterncapec
8 recorded

Relationships

child-of
from Dictionary-based Password Attack
Technique
child-of
to Brute Force
Technique
child-of
from Password Spraying
Technique
child-of
from Rainbow Table Password Cracking
Technique
child-of
from Try Common or Default Usernames and Passwords
Technique
mapped-to
to Password Guessing
Technique
related-to
from CVE-2019-18988
Vulnerability
related-to
from CVE-2026-20128
Vulnerability
1 external

References

capec
CAPEC-49
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