CWE-820 11 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-820: Missing Synchronization

Overview

CWE-820 (Missing 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 a shared resource in a concurrent manner but does not attempt to synchronize access to the resource.

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-2026-44318 2026-05-27 free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. Prior to 4.2.2, free5GC's BSF PUT /nbsf-management/v1/subscriptions/{subId} handler has an unsynchronized write on the global Subscript…
CVE-2026-22163 2026-03-20 Requires malware code to misuse the DDK kernel module IOCTL interface. Such code can use the interface in an unsupported way that allows subversion of the GPU to perform writes to arbitrary physical …
CVE-2022-50238 2025-09-08 The on-endpoint Microsoft vulnerable driver blocklist is not fully synchronized with the online Microsoft recommended driver block rules. Some entries present on the online list have been excluded fro…
CVE-2025-49751 2025-08-12 Missing synchronization in Windows Hyper-V allows an authorized attacker to deny service over an adjacent network.
CVE-2025-47999 2025-07-08 Missing synchronization in Windows Hyper-V allows an authorized attacker to deny service over an adjacent network.
CVE-2025-47154 2025-05-01 LibJS in Ladybird before f5a6704 mishandles the freeing of the vector that arguments_list references, leading to a use-after-free, and allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted…
CVE-2025-1445 2025-03-25 A vulnerability exists in RTU IEC 61850 client and server functionality that could impact the availability if renegotiation of an open IEC61850 TLS connection takes place in specific timing situations…
CVE-2024-49114 2024-12-12 Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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-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-2023-2801 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 …

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2010-08-06
Version
1.10

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2010-12-13 CWE Content Team 1.11 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2013-07-17 CWE Content Team 2.5 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-09-23 CWE Content Team 3.4.1 updated Maintenance_Notes
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated 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
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Time_of_Introduction, Weakness_Ordinalities
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