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CompTIA Security+ study material · question 169 of 611

Which two are hardware or firmware weaknesses rather than software ones? Choose two.

  1. An over-permissive database grant
  2. A missing output encoding in a web template
  3. A debug interface left enabled on shipped units
  4. Firmware that the vendor provides no mechanism to update
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Answer: C. A debug interface left enabled on shipped units
D. Firmware that the vendor provides no mechanism to update

Both are properties of the device as manufactured, which is why the operator can only compensate rather than fix.

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