Detail CWE-421

CWE-421

Race Condition During Access to Alternate Channel
2006-07-19
00h00 +00:00
Draft
2026-10-28
00h00 +00:00
Notifikasi untuk CWE tertentu
Tetap terinformasi tentang perubahan untuk CWE tertentu.
Kelola notifikasi

Nama: 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.

Informasi Umum

Mode Pengenalan

Architecture and Design

Platform yang Berlaku

Bahasa

Kelas: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Konsekuensi Umum

Cakupan Dampak Kemungkinan
Access ControlGain Privileges or Assume Identity, Bypass Protection Mechanism

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

Contoh yang Diamati

Referensi Deskripsi

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.

Catatan Pemetaan Kerentanan

Justifikasi : 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.
Komentar : 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.

Referensi

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.

Pengajuan

Nama Organisasi Tanggal Tanggal rilis Version
PLOVER 2006-07-19 +00:00 2006-07-19 +00:00 Draft 3

Modifikasi

Nama Organisasi Tanggal Komentar
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
CWE Content Team MITRE 2026-10-28 +00:00 updated Common_Consequences, Description