312-50V12 practice question 8 of 10

You are a penetration tester tasked with testing the wireless network of your client Brakeme S

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A: You are attempting to break into the wireless network with the SSID "Brakeme-lnternal." You realize that this network uses WPA3 encryption, which of the following vulnerabilities is the promising to exploit? Correct answer
B: Dragonblood
C: Cross-site request forgery
D: Key reinstallation attack
E: AP Myconfiguration
Correct Answer:
A. You are attempting to break into the wireless network with the SSID "Brakeme-lnternal." You realize that this network uses WPA3 encryption, which of the following vulnerabilities is the promising to exploit?
Explanation

Dragonblood is a collection of vulnerabilities discovered in the WPA3 Wi-Fi security standard's Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE) handshake, also known as Dragonfly. These flaws, including downgrade attacks and side-channel leaks, can allow an attacker within radio range to recover the network password. Since the target network uses WPA3, exploiting the Dragonblood vulnerabilities is the most promising and specific attack vector against the protocol itself.

Why Incorrect

B. Cross-site request forgery is a web application vulnerability and is not relevant to attacking a wireless network protocol like WPA3.
C. The Key Reinstallation Attack (KRACK) is a significant vulnerability affecting the WPA2 protocol. WPA3 was specifically designed to be resistant to KRACK attacks.
D. While AP misconfiguration can lead to vulnerabilities, Dragonblood is a specific, named vulnerability class inherent to the WPA3 SAE handshake, making it a more direct exploit.

References

1. Vanhoef, M., & Ronen, E. (2019). Dragonblood: A Security Analysis of WPA3’s SAE Handshake. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 1059-1076). ACM. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3319535.3354221 (Section 3, "Vulnerabilities in WPA3’s SAE handshake," details the attacks.)

2. Wi-Fi Alliance. (2020). Wi-Fi CERTIFIED WPA3™ Security. "WPA3-Personal provides more robust password-based authentication... using Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE), a secure key establishment protocol between devices." (The document describes SAE, the component targeted by Dragonblood).

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