GCFA · Question #300
John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He is assigned a project to test the security of We-are- secure Web site and receives the following error message: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC…
The correct answer is B. A SQL injection attack. The error 'Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error 0x80040E14' is a classic database-layer error exposed to the end user, which is a strong indicator of SQL injection vulnerability. OLE DB and ODBC are Microsoft data access technologies used to interact with relational…
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John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He is assigned a project to test the security of We-are- secure Web site and receives the following error message:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '0x80040E14' This error message shows that the We-are-secure Website is vulnerable to __________.
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- AAn XSS attack
- BA SQL injection attack
- CA Denial-of-Service attack
- DA buffer overflow
How the community answered
(39 responses)- A3% (1)
- B77% (30)
- C13% (5)
- D8% (3)
Explanation
The error 'Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error 0x80040E14' is a classic database-layer error exposed to the end user, which is a strong indicator of SQL injection vulnerability. OLE DB and ODBC are Microsoft data access technologies used to interact with relational databases (e.g., MS SQL Server, Access). Error code 0x80040E14 corresponds to a SQL syntax error generated by the database engine. This error surfaces when user-supplied input is directly interpolated into a SQL query without sanitization - meaning an attacker can inject malicious SQL syntax that either breaks the query (triggering this error) or manipulates database behavior. XSS (A) targets client-side script injection, DoS (C) targets service availability, and buffer overflow (D) targets memory boundaries - none of these would produce an OLE DB/ODBC database error.
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