You are working on a functional bug in a tool used by your development organization. In your investigation, you find that the tool is executed with a security policy file containing this grant…

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Options

• ANothing, because it is an internal tool and not exposed to the public.
• BNothing, because bugs are to be expected.
• CNothing, because it is not related to the bug you are investigating.
• DFlag a security bug against the tool ref factoring the excessive permission granted.
• ENothing, because adding all the required permissions would be an ongoing maintenance challenge.

• A
  2% (1)
• B
  5% (2)
• C
  9% (4)
• D
  84% (37)

Explanation

D is correct because discovering AllPermission in a security policy - even during unrelated bug investigation - represents a security vulnerability that must be reported. The principle of least privilege dictates that code should only have the specific permissions it needs; granting AllPermission removes all sandbox protections and exposes the JVM to privilege escalation, file system access, network access, and more.

Why the distractors fail:

• A is wrong because internal tools are still attack surfaces - insider threats, compromised dependencies, and lateral movement all exploit internal systems.
• B is wrong because security misconfigurations are not acceptable technical debt; they carry real risk regardless of other bugs.
• C is wrong because responsible security practice requires reporting findings even when out of scope for your current task - you have a duty to flag it.
• E is wrong because maintenance burden does not justify granting unlimited permissions; the correct approach is to enumerate only necessary permissions, not avoid the work entirely.

Memory tip: Think of AllPermission as giving someone a master key to your entire building just because they needed to access one room. Whenever you see it in a policy file, it's almost always a flag - the fix is to replace it with the specific, minimal permissions actually required.

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