Ethical Hacking

16.7    Practice Questions

In this section, you can test your knowledge of privilege escalation with 20 practice questions.

1. Which of the following best describes horizontal privilege escalation?

   • A. Access to an account with the same privileges as your own

   • B. Access to administrator rights via an exploit

   • C. Creating a new account with higher permissions

   • D. Using a rootkit to gain permanent control of a target system

   The correct answer is A, "Access to an account with the same privileges as your own." In horizontal privilege escalation, the attacker takes over another user account with the same level of permissions. Accessing administrator rights via an exploit describes vertical privilege escalation. Creating a new account with higher ...