CAPEC-485 Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation

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An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.

likelihood: Lowseverity: High
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