🛡️ Free practice test question from: VM escape attack (Security+)

In the described scenario, the VM is exploiting a vulnerability specifically within the hypervisor's memory management to access and manipulate memory regions of other VMs. This aligns with the concept of Hypervisor Memory Carving (memory-based VM escape), where an attacker targets the hypervisor's memory handling mechanisms to breach isolation and execute malicious code on the host system.

Executing Unauthorized Code: With access to the hypervisor's memory or the memory of other VMs, the attacker can inject and execute malicious code. This code can run with the privileges of the hypervisor, effectively granting the attacker control over the host system and potentially all other VMs running on it.

A) Hypervisor Interface Manipulation involves exploiting exposed hypervisor interfaces to execute arbitrary code, which is different from directly targeting memory regions.

B) Guest OS Privilege Escalation focuses on breaking out of a single VM's operating system.

D) Direct Memory Access (DMA) Abuse usually involves hardware-level memory access through peripheral devices.