StC Pentesting Fundamentals Study Group — Week #5 Recap
1 min readOct 16, 2019
Today we had our fifth session of the Pentesting Fundamentals Study Group.
We covered Chapter 5 Analyzing Vulnerability Scans of the CompTIA PenTest+ Study Guide and learned about the following topics:
- How to interpret scan reports.
- How to understand the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and how to use it to assess the severity of vulnerabilities.
- The things to look out for when validating scan results.
- The common vulnerabilities found by scanners.
We also watched IppSec’s videos on how to get system/root level access on the Arctic and Shocker Hack The Box (HTB) machines.
Next week, we’ll cover Ch-6 of the CompTIA Pentest+ book and work on the Nibbles & Valentine (both Linux) HTB boxes.
