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by Eiwatah4 4624 days ago
Afaik, as long as a weak cipher is enabled on both client and server, a MITM attacker can force it to be used. It involves manipulating the handshake to tell both parties the other one doesn't support any better cipher.
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Eh, no. Maybe in SSLv2, but the first thing TLS encrypts is a hash of the entire handshake. Modifying the cipher list would change those hashes into something different.

Unless you have a client which will happily disable a cipher and try again when encountering an error. But if you do that, you don't deserve any security.