Question 18 - SYO-701 Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigations Practice Test for the CompTIA Security+

A threat actor is using a stolen employee credential to access an organization’s network. The threat actor probes the network and discovers a vulnerability that allows them to change the stolen credential from user to admin. Which type of attack has occurred?

privilege injection
privilege escalation
privilege overflow
privilege forgery

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