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CompTIA Security+ study material · question 156 of 611

An unauthenticated endpoint runs an expensive report generation on every call. What is the risk?

  1. Application-level denial of service through repeated calls
  2. Injection through the report parameters
  3. Cross-site request forgery on report deletion
  4. Session fixation on the reporting session
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Answer: A. Application-level denial of service through repeated calls

Application denial of service usually comes from one expensive operation an unauthenticated caller can trigger repeatedly.

Source: OWASP Denial of Service Cheat Sheet (OWASP) — OWASP Denial of Service Cheat Sheet › Introduction

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