CWE-364 14 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-364: Signal Handler Race Condition

Overview

CWE-364 (Signal Handler Race Condition) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product uses a signal handler that introduces a race condition.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language C Sometimes
language C++ Sometimes

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-42002 2026-05-21 Concurrency and locking defects in GSS-TSIG
CVE-2026-33565 2026-05-19 in OpenHarmony v6.0 and prior versions allow a local attacker cause DOS.
CVE-2026-27766 2026-05-19 in OpenHarmony v6.0 and prior versions allow a local attacker cause information leak.
CVE-2026-24792 2026-05-19 in OpenHarmony v6.0 and prior versions allow a remote attacker arbitrary code execution in pre-installed apps.
CVE-2025-53092 2025-10-16 Strapi is an open source headless content management system. Strapi versions prior to 5.20.0 contain a CORS misconfiguration vulnerability in default installations. By default, Strapi reflects the val…
CVE-2025-4598 2025-05-30 A vulnerability was found in systemd-coredump. This flaw allows an attacker to force a SUID process to crash and replace it with a non-SUID binary to access the original's privileged process coredump,…
CVE-2024-7589 2024-08-12 A signal handler in sshd(8) may call a logging function that is not async-signal-safe. The signal handler is invoked when a client does not authenticate within the LoginGraceTime seconds (120 by defa…
CVE-2024-6409 2024-07-08 A race condition vulnerability was discovered in how signals are handled by OpenSSH's server (sshd). If a remote attacker does not authenticate within a set time period, then sshd's SIGALRM handler is…
CVE-2024-6387 2024-07-01 A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd). There is a race condition which can lead sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner. An unauthenticated, remote at…
CVE-2023-5676 2023-11-15 In Eclipse OpenJ9 before version 0.41.0, the JVM can be forced into an infinite busy hang on a spinlock or a segmentation fault if a shutdown signal (SIGTERM, SIGINT or SIGHUP) is received before the …
CVE-2023-1285 2023-04-14 Signal Handler Race Condition vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric India GC-ENET-COM whose first 2 digits of 11-digit serial number of unit are "16" allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a…
CVE-2020-14317 2021-06-02 It was found that the issue for security flaw CVE-2019-3805 appeared again in a further version of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform - Continuous Delivery (EAP-CD) introducing regression. An attac…
CVE-2019-3805 2019-05-03 A flaw was discovered in wildfly versions up to 16.0.0.Final that would allow local users who are able to execute init.d script to terminate arbitrary processes on the system. An attacker could exploi…
CVE-1999-0035 1997-05-29 Race condition in signal handling routine in ftpd, allowing read/write arbitrary files.

Content submission

Name
PLOVER
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Common_Consequences, Relationships, Other_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings
2010-09-27 CWE Content Team 1.10 updated Observed_Examples, References
2010-12-13 CWE Content Team 1.11 updated Common_Consequences, Demonstrative_Examples, Description, Observed_Examples, Other_Notes, Potential_Mitigations, Relationships
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Demonstrative_Examples, References, Relationships
2014-06-23 CWE Content Team 2.7 updated Demonstrative_Examples, References
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Observed_Examples, Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated References, Relationships
2021-03-15 CWE Content Team 4.4 updated Potential_Mitigations
2022-04-28 CWE Content Team 4.7 updated Relationships, Research_Gaps
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated References, Relationships, Time_of_Introduction
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Detection_Factors, Weakness_Ordinalities
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