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CWE-414Missing Lock Check

Category: other

Description

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

Common consequences· 1

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

Potential mitigations· 1

  • [Architecture and Design, Implementation]Implement a reliable lock mechanism.

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/414.html

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

CWE
Improper Locking
CWE
Improper Resource Locking
CWE
Missing Synchronization
CWE
Incorrect Synchronization
CWE
Unrestricted Externally Accessible Lock
CWE
Improper Ownership Management
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.