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ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question

In a peer code review, you find a utility class that checks the HTTP header X-Admin-Token against the hard-coded value 9beef42. If it matches, the code calls grantAdministrator() and bypasses normal authentication and audit logging. This behavior is undocumented and unknown to operations staff. Which type of malicious code does this most likely represent?

  • Race condition caused by unsynchronized authentication calls

  • Rootkit designed to conceal malicious processes

  • Logic bomb that activates under specific conditions to damage data

  • Backdoor that grants covert administrative access

ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)
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