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CWE-511Logic/Time Bomb

Category: other

Description

The product contains code that is designed to disrupt the legitimate operation of the product (or its environment) when a certain time passes, or when a certain logical condition is met. When the time bomb or logic bomb is detonated, it may perform a denial of service such as crashing the system, deleting critical data, or degrading system response time. This bomb might be placed within either a replicating or non-replicating Trojan horse.

Common consequences· 1

  • Other / Integrity — Varies by Context, Alter Execution Logic

Potential mitigations· 1

  • [Installation]Always verify the integrity of the product that is being installed.

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/511.html

Related by meaning· 6

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

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Embedded Malicious Code
CWE
Trojan Horse
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Exposure of Core Dump File to an Unauthorized Control Sphere
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Expired Pointer Dereference
CWE
Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release
CWE
Hardware Logic Contains Race Conditions
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.