Weakness · CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Two operations race on shared state, and an attacker wins the timing window between check and use.
Official CWE name. Full definition on cwe.mitre.org
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How attackers exploit it
Typical ATT&CK techniques for this class of weakness across CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (CTID mapping).
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What the attacker gets
Controls that stop it
NIST SP 800-53 controls that mitigate the most of those techniques.
- AC-6Least PrivilegeAccess Control · mitigates 2 techniques
- CA-7Continuous MonitoringSecurity Assessment and Authorization · mitigates 2 techniques
- CM-8System Component InventoryConfiguration Management · mitigates 2 techniques
- SC-18Mobile CodeSystem and Communications Protection · mitigates 2 techniques
- SI-3Malicious Code ProtectionSystem and Information Integrity · mitigates 2 techniques
- SI-4System MonitoringSystem and Information Integrity · mitigates 2 techniques
- SI-7Software, Firmware, and Information IntegritySystem and Information Integrity · mitigates 2 techniques
- AC-17Remote AccessAccess Control · mitigates 1 techniques
- AC-2Account ManagementAccess Control · mitigates 1 techniques
- AC-3Access EnforcementAccess Control · mitigates 1 techniques
Weaknesses from each CVE's CVE Record (CWE, © MITRE). Techniques: MITRE ATT&CK®. Technique ↔ control and CVE ↔ technique links: Center for Threat-Informed Defense Mappings Explorer (NIST SP 800-53 rev5; CISA KEV). Plain-language explainers are SecurityTabs editorial.