During a security assessment, you identified that an employee's desktop application for managing customer data allows for executing arbitrary database queries by modifying inputs within the application. This vulnerability can be exploited by attackers to manipulate or exfiltrate sensitive data from the company database. Which specific type of vulnerability does this scenario describe?
The correct answer is SQL injection (SQLi). This occurs when an attacker is able to insert or manipulate SQL queries using input fields exposed by the application. It is a form of injection attack that makes it possible to execute malicious SQL statements that can control a web application's database server.
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