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CWE-414 — Missing Lock Check

provenance: imported · CWE: CWE-414

CWE-414: Missing Lock Check

MITRE CWE weakness

Kind Weakness
Abstraction Base
Status Draft
Likelihood of exploit

Description

A product does not check to see if a lock is present before performing sensitive operations on a resource.

Common consequences

  • Integrity, Availability: Modify Application Data, DoS: Instability, DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart

Mitigations

Architecture and Design — Implement a reliable lock mechanism.

References

  • CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/414.html
  • CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html