CWE-421 Details

CWE-421

Race Condition During Access to Alternate Channel
Draft
2006-07-19
00h00 +00:00
2025-12-11
00h00 +00:00
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Name: Race Condition During Access to Alternate Channel

The product opens an alternate channel to communicate with an authorized user, but the channel is accessible to other actors.

CWE-Beschreibung

This creates a race condition that allows an attacker to access the channel before the authorized user does.

Allgemeine Informationen

Einführungsmodi

Architecture and Design

Anwendbare Plattformen

Sprache

Class: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Häufige Konsequenzen

Bereich Auswirkung Wahrscheinlichkeit
Access ControlGain Privileges or Assume Identity, Bypass Protection Mechanism

Beobachtete Beispiele

Referenzen Beschreibung

CVE-1999-0351

FTP "Pizza Thief" vulnerability. Attacker can connect to a port that was intended for use by another client.

CVE-2003-0230

Product creates Windows named pipe during authentication that another attacker can hijack by connecting to it.

Hinweise zur Schwachstellen-Zuordnung

Begründung : This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.
Kommentar : Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

Referenzen

REF-354

Discovering and Exploiting Named Pipe Security Flaws for Fun and Profit
Blake Watts.
https://www.blakewatts.com/blog/discovering-and-exploiting-named-pipe-security-flaws-for-fun-and-profit

REF-44

24 Deadly Sins of Software Security
Michael Howard, David LeBlanc, John Viega.

Einreichung

Name Organisation Datum Veröffentlichungsdatum Version
PLOVER 2006-07-19 +00:00 2006-07-19 +00:00 Draft 3

Änderungen

Name Organisation Datum Kommentar
Eric Dalci Cigital 2008-07-01 +00:00 updated Potential_Mitigations, Time_of_Introduction
CWE Content Team MITRE 2008-09-08 +00:00 updated Relationships, Observed_Example, Other_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings, Type
CWE Content Team MITRE 2008-10-14 +00:00 updated Description
CWE Content Team MITRE 2009-01-12 +00:00 updated References
CWE Content Team MITRE 2011-06-01 +00:00 updated Common_Consequences
CWE Content Team MITRE 2012-05-11 +00:00 updated References, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2012-10-30 +00:00 updated Potential_Mitigations
CWE Content Team MITRE 2014-06-23 +00:00 updated Other_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2014-07-30 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2017-11-08 +00:00 updated Applicable_Platforms, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2020-02-24 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-04-27 +00:00 updated References, Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-06-29 +00:00 updated Mapping_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2025-09-09 +00:00 updated Functional_Areas
CWE Content Team MITRE 2025-12-11 +00:00 updated Weakness_Ordinalities