Your team is tasked with conducting a security assessment on a proprietary web application. They've decided to use fuzzing to identify potential input validation issues that could lead to security vulnerabilities. Which of the following methods best describes their approach to finding these issues?
Providing random and malformed data to the application forms to identify handling errors.
Scanning the source code with static analysis tools to identify vulnerabilities.
Using network sniffing tools to intercept and analyze traffic between the client and application server.
Performing legitimate transactions on the application to verify if the responses are as expected.
The correct answer is "Providing random and malformed data to the application forms to identify handling errors." because fuzzing is about testing the application's response to unexpected or invalid data. If the application does not handle this kind of input gracefully, it could result in crashes or exploitable conditions. Using legitimate inputs would not serve the purpose of fuzzing as it would not likely lead to discovering new vulnerabilities. Scanning the source code would involve static analysis, which is different from the dynamic approach of fuzzing.
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