Introductory Researching

Prompts and answers

• In the Burp Suite Program that ships with Kali Linux, what mode would you use to manually send a request (often repeating a captured request numerous times)?
  Repeater
• What hash format are modern Windows login passwords stored in?
  NTLM
• What are automated tasks called in Linux?
  Cron Jobs
• What number base could you use as a shorthand for base 2 (binary)?
  Base 16
• If a password hash starts with $6$, what format is it (Unix variant)?
  sha512crypt
• What is the CVE for the 2020 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability found in WPForms?
  CVE-2020-10385
• There was a Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability found in the Debian version of Apache Tomcat, back in 2016. What's the CVE for this vulnerability?
  CVE-2016-1240
• What is the very first CVE found in the VLC media player?
  CVE-2007-0017
• If you wanted to exploit a 2020 buffer overflow in the sudo program, which CVE would you use?
  CVE-2019-18634
• What switch would you use to copy an entire directory?
  -r
• What switch would you use to list the current partitions?
  -l
• What switch would you use to make a backup when opening a file with nano?
  -B
• What command would you use to start netcat in listen mode, using port 12345?
  nc -l -p 12345