CWEweakness
CWE-421 Race Condition During Access to Alternate Channel
- Abstraction
- Base
- Structure
- Simple
- Status
- Draft
- Languages
- Not Language-Specific
- CWE version
- 5.0
Description
The product opens an alternate channel to communicate with an authorized user, but the channel is accessible to other actors.
Common consequences
• Access Control: Gain Privileges or Assume Identity, Bypass Protection Mechanism — This creates a race condition that allows an attacker to access the channel before the authorized user does.
Observed examples
• 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.
Related
Observed example · CVE (2)
- CVE-2003-0230 Microsoft SQL Server 7, 2000, and MSDE allows local users to gain privileges by hijacking a named pipe during the authentication of another… vulnerability
- CVE-1999-0351 FTP PASV "Pizza Thief" denial of service and unauthorized data access. vulnerability
Child of · CWE (2)
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