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CWE-368: Context Switching Race Condition

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A product performs a series of non-atomic actions to switch between contexts that cross privilege or other security boundaries, but a race condition allows an attacker to modify or misrepresent the product's behavior during the switch.

What the weakness is: CWE-368 at MITRE. All weaknesses

Related attack patterns (CAPEC): 2
  • CAPEC-26 Leveraging Race Conditions Likelihood: High · Severity: High
  • CAPEC-29 Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions Likelihood: High · Severity: High

The attack patterns MITRE's CAPEC relates to CWE-368, as MITRE names them. Credits.

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