A city web foothold can reach hosts on a payroll VLAN that the tester laptop cannot route to. What is the appropriate next judgment?
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Short Explanation
Imagine your laptop is stuck on one side of a locked hallway, but the compromised city box has a key to the payroll wing. Pivoting means walking through that box instead of banging on walls from your own desk. Blind scanning from the wrong network position just wastes time and never opens the door.
Full Explanation
When targets are not directly routable from the tester’s network position, continuing scans from the laptop will not reveal those hosts. CPTS-style pivoting uses an already compromised, in-scope host as a stepping stone to reach internal segments. Privilege escalation on the foothold may help later, but it does not replace the need for a pivot when routing is the blocker. The judgment call is to extend reach through the foothold rather than assume direct connectivity.