Context Switching Race Condition
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.
Description
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.
See Also
Weaknesses in this category are related to concurrency.
This category identifies Software Fault Patterns (SFPs) within the Missing Lock cluster (SFP19).
Weaknesses in this category are related to concurrent use of shared resources.
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