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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Practice Question

While testing a shared Linux hosting platform, you compromise SiteA and gain shell access as the Apache user (www-data). Each customer owns a separate directory under /home, but Apache is configured with FollowSymLinks and no SymLinksIfOwnerMatch restriction. Which attack would let you retrieve wp-config.php from a neighboring customer's directory without additional network exploits?

  • Launch an ARP poisoning attack on the hosting provider's switch to capture the neighbor's HTTP traffic.

  • Place a symbolic link in SiteA's web root that targets /home/otheruser/public_html/wp-config.php, then fetch it over HTTP.

  • Use SQL injection in SiteA to query the other customer's database for the file content.

  • Send a forged AXFR request to perform a DNS zone transfer from the neighbor's authoritative server.

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