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Web Security Quiz Practice
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Web Security
What is dependency confusion, as a distinct attack pattern?
A
Simply forgetting to update a dependency
B
An attacker publishes a same-named package to a public registry with a higher version, tricking a misconfigured install into pulling the malicious public package instead of the intended private/internal one
C
A build tool crashing due to a version mismatch
D
The same thing as a ReDoS attack
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