Question

In what type of attack does the adversary leverage a position on a guest operating system to gain access to hardware resources assigned to other operating systems running in the same hardware environment

Answer 1

Answer:

VM escape attack

Explanation:

In a VM escape attack, the attacker exploits hypervisor vulnerabilities to gain control over resources reserved for other guest operating systems. Services operating on the guest may be exposed to the other attacks, but such attacks can only access data allotted to the same guest. In the event of a buffer overflow or directory traversal or the client in the case of cross-site scripting.