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Date Submitted:
08/05/05
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Downstream Liability for Attack Relay and AmplificationAdded by Papergrl
Description:
While accessing the Internet at work, Jane finds a six-month old vulnerability in Megacorp's web server. Exploiting this vulnerability, Jane is able to gain privileged access to the system. From Megacorp's system, Jane then discovers a month-old vulnerability on the hospital system located in Washington state. She is able to exploit this as well and gains privileged access to the hospital server. Once Jane is a privileged user on the hospital's system, she is able to penetrate more deeply into the hospital's network wherein she finds a database server containing sensitive patient records. While browsing the database, Jane G. stumbles on Mr. Big Star's file and decides to download a copy.
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