CompTIA PenTest+ PT0-002 Practice Question

During a penetration test, a service is found to be utilizing an older remote communication method over HTTP without proper safeguards. Recognizing the potential for exploiting the parser handling these requests, what type of attack should you primarily attempt to compromise the service?

  • Directory traversal

  • Buffer overflow attack

  • XML External Entity (XXE) attack

  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CompTIA PenTest+ PT0-002
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