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How Multi-Step Exploit Chaining Actually Works

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Multi-step exploit chaining starts with reconnaissance — mapping out every route, parameter, and role an application exposes. From there, the work is about identifying which individual weaknesses can be combined, not just cataloguing them separately.

A typical chain might look like this: an unauthenticated endpoint leaks a tenant identifier, that identifier lets you replay a session parameter meant for a different account, and the account you land in happens to have elevated privileges. Three unremarkable steps, one critical outcome.

Building a chain like this by hand takes a skilled human days. Reasoning through the same combinatorial space is exactly the kind of problem well suited to a system built specifically to think in attack paths rather than isolated checks.