CWE-386 - Symbolic Name not Mapping to Correct Object

Scope: Access Control

Impact: Gain Privileges or Assume Identity

Notes: The attacker can gain access to otherwise unauthorized resources.

Scope: Integrity, Confidentiality, Other

Impact: Modify Application Data, Modify Files or Directories, Read Application Data, Read Files or Directories, Other

Notes: Race conditions such as this kind may be employed to gain read or write access to resources not normally readable or writable by the user in question.

Scope: Integrity, Other

Impact: Modify Application Data, Other

Notes: The resource in question, or other resources (through the corrupted one) may be changed in undesirable ways by a malicious user.

Scope: Non-Repudiation

Impact: Hide Activities

Notes: If a file or other resource is written in this method, as opposed to a valid way, logging of the activity may not occur.

Scope: Non-Repudiation, Integrity

Impact: Modify Files or Directories

Notes: In some cases it may be possible to delete files that a malicious user might not otherwise have access to -- such as log files.