CWE WEAKNESSES / CWE-675
CWE-675
Multiple Operations on Resource in Single-Operation Context
Class
What it is
The product performs the same operation on a resource two or more times, when the operation should only be applied once.
Impact
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Real-world CVE examples
- CVE-2009-0935 — Attacker provides invalid address to a memory-reading function, causing a mutex to be unlocked twice
- CVE-2019-13351 — file descriptor double close can cause the wrong file to be associated with a file descriptor.
- CVE-2004-1939 — XSS protection mechanism attempts to remove "/" that could be used to close tags, but it can be bypassed using double encoded slashes (%252F)
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Source: MITRE CWE. View on cwe.mitre.org →