SFP Secondary Cluster: Race Condition Window
A category in the Common Weakness Enumeration published by The MITRE Corporation.
Summary
Categories in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) group entries based on some common characteristic or attribute.
This category identifies Software Fault Patterns (SFPs) within the Race Condition Window cluster (SFP20).
Weaknesses
The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a ...
The product does not check the revocation status of a certificate after its initial revocation check, which can cause the product to perform privileged actions even af...
The product does not perform access checks on a resource every time the resource is accessed by an entity, which can create resultant weaknesses if that entity's right...
The product checks the status of a file or directory before accessing it, which produces a race condition in which the file can be replaced with a link before the acce...
The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the ...
Concepts
CWE identifiers in this view are associated with clusters of Software Fault Patterns (SFPs).
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