Question 10
At the Ashbourne retail company, a build pipeline downloads a newly renamed library that runs unexpected code during installation. Which explanation best accounts for the concern?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The strongest explanation is that a malicious dependency can execute through otherwise legitimate automated software installation. This accounts for the outcome and supports the action to require trusted pinned dependencies provenance validation and isolated package build checks.
Incorrect Answers
Although an adversary on an untrusted network path can read or modify plaintext session material, the presented symptoms do not support that as the primary cause; they indicate that a malicious dependency can execute through otherwise legitimate automated software installation. For the Ashbourne retail company, the direct corrective action is to require trusted pinned dependencies provenance validation and isolated package build checks.
The offered principle is: Mixed criticality zones permit compromise of public services to spread toward identity infrastructure. In the source material it is associated with: Mixed criticality zones permit compromise of public services to spread toward identity infrastructure. This case has a different controlling cause: A malicious dependency can execute through otherwise legitimate automated software installation. Its keyed mechanism is: A malicious dependency can execute through otherwise legitimate automated software installation.
Policy-based crypto maps become cumbersome with many changing protected subnets. That may occur elsewhere, but the evidence at the Ashbourne retail company instead points to the fact that a malicious dependency can execute through otherwise legitimate automated software installation.