CWE-662 58 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-662: Improper Synchronization

Overview

CWE-662 (Improper Synchronization) 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 utilizes multiple threads, processes, components, or systems to allow temporary access to a shared resource that can only be exclusive to one process at a time, but it does not properly synchronize these actions, which might cause simultaneous accesses of this resource by multiple threads or processes.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined

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-2026-39865 2026-04-08 Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Starting in version 1.13.0 and prior to 1.13.2, Axios HTTP/2 session cleanup logic contains a state corruption bug that allows a malic…
CVE-2026-28789 2026-03-05 OliveTin gives access to predefined shell commands from a web interface. Prior to version 3000.10.3, an unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerability exists in OliveTin’s OAuth2 login flow. Concurre…
CVE-2025-22853 2025-08-12 Improper synchronization in the firmware for some Intel(R) TDX may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
CVE-2024-58131 2025-04-06 FISCO BCOS 3.11.0 has an issue with synchronization of the transaction pool that can, for example, be observed when a malicious node (that has modified the codebase to allow a large min_seal_time valu…
CVE-2025-27104 2025-02-21 vyper is a Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the EVM. Multiple evaluation of a single expression is possible in the iterator target of a for loop. While the iterator expression cannot produce multi…
CVE-2024-7409 2024-08-05 A flaw was found in the QEMU NBD Server. This vulnerability allows a denial of service (DoS) attack via improper synchronization during socket closure when a client keeps a socket open as the server i…
CVE-2024-32644 2024-04-19 Evmos is a scalable, high-throughput Proof-of-Stake EVM blockchain that is fully compatible and interoperable with Ethereum. Prior to 17.0.0, there is a way to mint arbitrary tokens due to the possibi…
CVE-2024-30387 2024-04-12 A Missing Synchronization vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on ACX5448 and ACX710 allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial-of-Servi…
CVE-2021-46939 2024-02-27 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block It was reported that a fix to the ring buffer recursion detection would c…
CVE-2023-45084 2023-12-05 An issue exists in SoftIron HyperCloud where drive caddy removal and reinsertion without a reboot may erroneously cause the system to recognize the caddy as new media and wipe all data on the drives d…
CVE-2023-5088 2023-11-03 A bug in QEMU could cause a guest I/O operation otherwise addressed to an arbitrary disk offset to be targeted to offset 0 instead (potentially overwriting the VM's boot code). This could be used, for…
CVE-2023-2801 2023-06-06 Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Using public dashboards users can query multiple distinct data sources using mixed queries. However such query has a possibility …
CVE-2023-20625 2023-03-07 In adsp, there is a possible double free due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitat…
CVE-2023-20611 2023-02-06 In gpu, there is a possible use after free due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploit…
CVE-2023-20610 2023-02-06 In display drm, there is a possible memory corruption due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed …
CVE-2023-20607 2023-02-06 In ccu, there is a possible memory corruption due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for expl…
CVE-2022-32643 2023-02-06 In ccd, there is a possible use after free due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploit…
CVE-2022-32642 2023-02-06 In ccd, there is a possible memory corruption due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for expl…
CVE-2022-23005 2023-01-23 Western Digital has identified a weakness in the UFS standard that could result in a security vulnerability. This vulnerability may exist in some systems where the Host boot ROM code implements the UF…
CVE-2022-32648 2023-01-03 In disp, there is a possible use after free due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploi…

Previous names

  • Insufficient Synchronization (2010-09-27)

Content submission

Name
CWE Community
Date
2008-04-11
Version
Draft 9
Comment
Submitted by members of the CWE community to extend early CWE versions

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Potential_Mitigations, Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Relationships
2008-10-14 CWE Content Team 1.0.1 updated Relationships
2008-11-24 CWE Content Team 1.1 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2009-03-10 CWE Content Team 1.3 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2009-05-27 CWE Content Team 1.4 updated Relationships
2010-09-27 CWE Content Team 1.10 updated Name, Relationships
2010-12-13 CWE Content Team 1.11 updated Description, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2011-09-13 CWE Content Team 2.1 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 updated Potential_Mitigations
2013-07-17 CWE Content Team 2.5 updated Relationships
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-06-20 CWE Content Team 3.3 updated Type
2019-09-23 CWE Content Team 3.4.1 updated Description, Maintenance_Notes, Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Description, Relationships
2020-08-20 CWE Content Team 4.2 updated Relationships
2020-12-10 CWE Content Team 4.3 updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2023-10-26 CWE Content Team 4.13 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Observed_Examples
2024-02-29 CWE Content Team 4.14 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Description, Detection_Factors, Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities
2026-04-30 CWE Content Team 4.20 updated Maintenance_Notes, Research_Gaps
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