A systems administrator discovers a guest user gained access to classified reports. Upon further investigation, the logs indicate that the user was added to the administrator group. Which of the follo

The correct answer is B. Privilege escalation. Privilege escalation occurs when an attacker, the guest user, gains higher-level permissions than originally assigned (being added to the administrator group), allowing access to classified

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Question

A systems administrator discovers a guest user gained access to classified reports. Upon further investigation, the logs indicate that the user was added to the administrator group. Which of the following best describes this attack?

Options

ACredential replay
BPrivilege escalation
CDirectory traversal
DBrute-force

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A
4% (1)
B
81% (21)
C
12% (3)
D
4% (1)

Explanation

Privilege escalation occurs when an attacker, the guest user, gains higher-level permissions than originally assigned (being added to the administrator group), allowing access to classified

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