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CAS-002 · Question #169

A process allows a LUN to be available to some hosts and unavailable to others. Which of the following causes such a process to become vulnerable?

The correct answer is D. Moving the HBA. LUN masking restricts LUN access based on Host Bus Adapter identity, so physically moving an HBA to a different host grants that host unintended access to the masked LUN.

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Question

A process allows a LUN to be available to some hosts and unavailable to others. Which of the following causes such a process to become vulnerable?

Options

  • ALUN masking
  • BData injection
  • CData fragmentation
  • DMoving the HBA

How the community answered

(23 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    4% (1)
  • C
    13% (3)
  • D
    78% (18)

Why each option

LUN masking restricts LUN access based on Host Bus Adapter identity, so physically moving an HBA to a different host grants that host unintended access to the masked LUN.

ALUN masking

LUN masking is the name of the access control process being described in the question - it is the mechanism being circumvented, not the cause of the vulnerability.

BData injection

Data injection refers to inserting malicious data into a data stream or storage system and has no relation to the physical relocation of an HBA or LUN access control bypass.

CData fragmentation

Data fragmentation describes how data is distributed across non-contiguous storage blocks and has no relationship to HBA-based LUN masking or the resulting access control vulnerability.

DMoving the HBACorrect

LUN masking works by associating a LUN's visibility with the World Wide Name (WWN) of a specific HBA - when an HBA is physically relocated to a different host server, that new host inherits the HBA's WWN and gains unauthorized access to the LUN without any change to the masking configuration, completely bypassing the intended access restriction.

Concept tested: LUN masking vulnerability via HBA physical relocation

Source: https://www.snia.org/education/storage_networking_primer/san/lun_masking

Topics

#LUN masking#SAN security#HBA#storage access control

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