CWE-368 — Context Switching Race Condition
CWE-368: Context Switching Race Condition
MITRE CWE weakness
| Kind | Weakness |
| Abstraction | Base |
| Status | Draft |
| Likelihood of exploit | — |
Description
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.
This is commonly seen in web browser vulnerabilities in which the attacker can perform certain actions while the browser is transitioning from a trusted to an untrusted domain, or vice versa, and the browser performs the actions on one domain using the trust level and resources of the other domain.
Common consequences
- Integrity, Confidentiality: Modify Application Data, Read Application Data
Mitigations
(none listed)
References
- CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/368.html
- CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html