General Information

Forced Deadlock

Variants:
Direct 

Also Known As:
Unrestricted Externally Accessible Lock

Vector Type:
Attack

Relevance:
Generic

Layer:
Application-Level

Platforms:
Any

Target Type:
Application

Affected Mechanisms:
Synchronization

Invented In:
01/01/1999

Added In:
25/12/2014


Vector Operation Method:
Attackers abuse a feature that locks resources which other entities require access to, in order to deny service or cause unexpected behaviours. Locked resources come in the form of static fields, files, tables, fields, rows, etc.


Direct Variant:

Forced Deadlock

Also Known As:
Unrestricted Externally Accessible Lock

Typical Severity:
Major

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