Chapter 3

Analyzing Potential Indicators Associated with Application Attacks

This chapter covers the following topics related to Objective 1.3 (Given a scenario, analyze potential indicators associated with application attacks) of the CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 certification exam:

  • Privilege escalation

  • Cross-site scripting

  • Injections

    • Structured query language (SQL)

    • Dynamic link library (DLL)

    • Lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP)

    • Extensible markup language (XML)

  • Pointer/object dereference

  • Directory traversal

  • Buffer overflows

  • Race conditions (Time of check/time of use)

  • Error handling

  • Improper input handling

  • Replay attack (session replays)

  • Integer overflow

  • Request forgeries

    • Server-side

    • Cross-site

  • Application programming interface (API) ...

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