Question

What is an example of privilege escalation attack?

Answer 1

Answer:

Privilege escalation is the act of exploiting a bug, design flaw or configuration oversight in an operating system or software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.

Answer 2

Answer:

when a username or password is stolen and then used gain unautorized access to an account or network is an example of privilege escalation attack