CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')¶
MITRE. (2026). CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition'). Common Weakness Enumeration.
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Mechanisms¶
- Assignment and Release Workflow
- The workflow's strength is that it makes turnover legible and safe: every placement and vacancy is an authorized, ordered transition, which is what prevents the double-booking a naive system produces when two requests race for the same site — a classic race condition
This sourceDefines a race condition as behavior in which concurrent execution over a shared resource produces an unintended outcome because operations are not properly synchronized.
- The workflow's strength is that it makes turnover legible and safe: every placement and vacancy is an authorized, ordered transition, which is what prevents the double-booking a naive system produces when two requests race for the same site — a classic race condition
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