EC-Council
312-39 · Question #55
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Question
A healthcare organization's SIEM detects unusual HTTP requests targeting its patient portal. The requests originate from a foreign IP address and occur during non-business hours. The methods used are primarily TRACE and OPTIONS, which are rarely seen in normal web traffic. The SIEM correlates these with increased reconnaissance activity on other servers within the same subnet. What is the primary security concern with TRACE and OPTIONS requests?
Options
- AThey expose information about server-supported methods and request headers
- BThey can be used to upload malicious payloads directly to the server
- CThey make Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks easier
- DThey allow attackers to bypass authentication controls
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