Race Condition During Access to Alternate Channel
The product opens an alternate channel to communicate with an authorized user, but the channel is accessible to other actors.
Description
This creates a race condition that allows an attacker to access the channel before the authorized user does.
See Also
Weaknesses in this category are related to access control.
This category identifies Software Fault Patterns (SFPs) within the Channel Attack cluster.
Weaknesses in this category are related to concurrent use of shared resources.
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