CWE-764 - Multiple Locks of a Critical Resource

Weakness Name

Multiple Locks of a Critical Resource

Description

The product locks a critical resource more times than intended, leading to an unexpected state in the system.

When a product is operating in a concurrent environment and repeatedly locks a critical resource, the consequences will vary based on the type of lock, the lock's implementation, and the resource being protected. In some situations such as with semaphores, the resources are pooled and extra locking calls will reduce the size of the total available pool, possibly leading to degraded performance or a denial of service. If this can be triggered by an attacker, it will be similar to an unrestricted lock (CWE-412). In the context of a binary lock, it is likely that any duplicate locking attempts will never succeed since the lock is already held and progress may not be possible.

Common Consequences

Related Weaknesses

CWE-662Improper Synchronization

CWE-667Improper Locking

CWE-675Multiple Operations on Resource in Single-Operation Context