CWE-1249 Detail

The product provides an application for administrators to manage parts of the underlying operating system, but the application does not accurately identify all of the relevant entities or resources that exist in the OS; that is, the application's model of the OS's state is inconsistent with the OS's actual state.

Modes Of Introduction

Architecture and Design : The design might assume that the underlying OS does not change.
Implementation : Assumptions about the underlying OS might be hard-coded into the application or otherwise in external data stores in a way that is not updated when the OS's state changes.

Applicable Platforms

Language

Class: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Operating Systems

Class: Not OS-Specific (Undetermined)

Technologies

Class: Web Based (Undetermined)

Common Consequences

Potential Mitigations

Phases : Architecture and Design

Vulnerability Mapping Notes

Justification : 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.
Comment : 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.

References

REF-1070

Ghost in the Shell Weakness
Tony Martin.
https://friendsglobal.com/ghost-in-the-shell/ghost-in-the-shell-weakness/

Submission

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