While Performing Privilege Escalation on a Windows 7 Workstation, a Penetration

question 98

Multiple Choice

While performing privilege escalation on a Windows 7 workstation, a penetration tester identifies a service that imports a DLL by name rather than an absolute path. To exploit this vulnerability, which of the following criteria must be met?

• A) Permissions not disabled in the DLL
• B) Weak folder permissions of a directory in the DLL search path
• C) Write permissions in the C:\Windows\System32\imports directory
• D) DLL not cryptographically signed by the vendor

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