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CAS-005 · Question #339
A programmer is reviewing the following proprietary piece of code that was identified as a vulnerability due to users being authenticated when they provide incorrect credentials: Which of the followin
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Submitted by alyssa_d· Mar 6, 2026Security Engineering
Question
A programmer is reviewing the following proprietary piece of code that was identified as a vulnerability due to users being authenticated when they provide incorrect credentials:
Which of the following should the programmer implement to remediate the code vulnerability?
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- ASalted hashing via the proprietary function
- BInput validation in the first two lines of code
- CAtomic execution of subroutines
- DTOCTOU remediation in SET USERACL
- EDatabase connection over encrypted channels
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