Common Weakness Enumeration
CWE-362
Allowed-with-ReviewConcurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Abstraction: Class · Status: Draft
The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.
3078 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
CVE-2026-35554 (GCVE-0-2026-35554)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-07 13:07 – Updated: 2026-04-07 16:23
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Apache Kafka Clients: Kafka Producer Message Corruption and Misrouting via Buffer Pool Race Condition
Summary
A race condition in the Apache Kafka Java producer client’s buffer pool management can cause messages to be silently delivered to incorrect topics.
When a produce batch expires due to delivery.timeout.ms while a network request containing that batch is still in flight, the batch’s ByteBuffer is prematurely deallocated and returned to the buffer pool. If a subsequent producer batch—potentially destined for a different topic—reuses this freed buffer before the original network request completes, the buffer contents may become corrupted. This can result in messages being delivered to unintended topics without any error being reported to the producer.
Data Confidentiality:
Messages intended for one topic may be delivered to a different topic, potentially exposing sensitive data to consumers who have access to the destination topic but not the intended source topic.
Data Integrity:
Consumers on the receiving topic may encounter unexpected or incompatible messages, leading to deserialization failures, processing errors, and corrupted downstream data.
This issue affects Apache Kafka versions ≤ 3.9.1, ≤ 4.0.1, and ≤ 4.1.1.
Kafka users are advised to upgrade to 3.9.2, 4.0.2, 4.1.2, 4.2.0, or later to address this vulnerability.
Severity
8.7 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-07 13:57 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-19012 | issue-tracking |
| https://lists.apache.org/thread/f07x7j8ovyqhjd1to… | mailing-listvendor-advisory |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/07/6 |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation | Apache Kafka Clients |
Affected:
2.8.0 , ≤ 3.9.1
(semver)
Affected: 4.0.0 , ≤ 4.0.1 (semver) Affected: 4.1.0 , ≤ 4.1.1 (semver) |
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CVE-2026-35099 (GCVE-0-2026-35099)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-01 15:39 – Updated: 2026-04-01 20:11
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Lakeside SysTrack Agent 11 before 11.5.0.15 has a race condition with resultant local privilege escalation to SYSTEM. The fixed versions are 11.2.1.28, 11.3.0.38, 11.4.0.24, and 11.5.0.15.
Severity
7.4 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-01 16:12 UTC
CWE
- CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeside Software | SysTrack Agent |
Affected:
11 , < 11.2.1.28
(custom)
Affected: 11.3 , < 11.3.0.38 (custom) Affected: 11.4 , < 11.4.0.24 (custom) Affected: 11.5 , < 11.5.0.15 (custom) |
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CVE-2026-34862 (GCVE-0-2026-34862)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-13 04:09 – Updated: 2026-04-13 13:24
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Race condition vulnerability in the power consumption statistics module.
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-13 13:24 UTC
CWE
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CVE-2026-34861 (GCVE-0-2026-34861)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-13 04:08 – Updated: 2026-04-13 13:27
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Race condition vulnerability in the thermal management module.
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
Severity
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SSVC
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Automatable: no
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CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
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CVE-2026-34858 (GCVE-0-2026-34858)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-13 04:06 – Updated: 2026-04-13 13:28
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
UAF vulnerability in the communication module.
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
Severity
4.1 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-13 13:27 UTC
CWE
- CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
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CVE-2026-34857 (GCVE-0-2026-34857)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-13 04:05 – Updated: 2026-04-13 14:49
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
UAF vulnerability in the communication module.
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
Severity
4.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-13 14:49 UTC
CWE
- CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
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CVE-2026-34856 (GCVE-0-2026-34856)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-13 03:56 – Updated: 2026-04-13 15:01
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
UAF vulnerability in the communication module.
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
Severity
7.3 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-13 15:01 UTC
CWE
- CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
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CVE-2026-34851 (GCVE-0-2026-34851)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-13 03:44 – Updated: 2026-04-13 18:06
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Race condition vulnerability in the event notification module.
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-13 17:36 UTC
CWE
- CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
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CVE-2026-34850 (GCVE-0-2026-34850)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-13 03:42 – Updated: 2026-04-13 18:06
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Race condition vulnerability in the notification service.
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-13 17:36 UTC
CWE
- CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
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CVE-2026-34849 (GCVE-0-2026-34849)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-13 03:58 – Updated: 2026-04-13 15:01
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
UAF vulnerability in the screen management module.
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-13 15:01 UTC
CWE
- CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
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Mitigation
Architecture and Design
In languages that support it, use synchronization primitives. Only wrap these around critical code to minimize the impact on performance.
Mitigation
Architecture and Design
Use thread-safe capabilities such as the data access abstraction in Spring.
Mitigation
Architecture and Design
- Minimize the usage of shared resources in order to remove as much complexity as possible from the control flow and to reduce the likelihood of unexpected conditions occurring.
- Additionally, this will minimize the amount of synchronization necessary and may even help to reduce the likelihood of a denial of service where an attacker may be able to repeatedly trigger a critical section (CWE-400).
Mitigation
Implementation
When using multithreading and operating on shared variables, only use thread-safe functions.
Mitigation
Implementation
Use atomic operations on shared variables. Be wary of innocent-looking constructs such as "x++". This may appear atomic at the code layer, but it is actually non-atomic at the instruction layer, since it involves a read, followed by a computation, followed by a write.
Mitigation
Implementation
Use a mutex if available, but be sure to avoid related weaknesses such as CWE-412.
Mitigation
Implementation
Avoid double-checked locking (CWE-609) and other implementation errors that arise when trying to avoid the overhead of synchronization.
Mitigation
Implementation
Disable interrupts or signals over critical parts of the code, but also make sure that the code does not go into a large or infinite loop.
Mitigation
Implementation
Use the volatile type modifier for critical variables to avoid unexpected compiler optimization or reordering. This does not necessarily solve the synchronization problem, but it can help.
Mitigation MIT-17
Architecture and Design
Operation
Strategy: Environment Hardening
Run your code using the lowest privileges that are required to accomplish the necessary tasks [REF-76]. If possible, create isolated accounts with limited privileges that are only used for a single task. That way, a successful attack will not immediately give the attacker access to the rest of the software or its environment. For example, database applications rarely need to run as the database administrator, especially in day-to-day operations.
CAPEC-26: Leveraging Race Conditions
The adversary targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently, and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The adversary can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance, a race condition can occur while accessing a file: the adversary can trick the system by replacing the original file with their version and cause the system to read the malicious file.
CAPEC-29: Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions
This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. A typical example is file access. The adversary can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that they would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the adversary could replace or modify the file, causing the application to behave unexpectedly.