Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
CVE-2021-22369
Summary
There is a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition Vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may escalate the permission to that of the root user.
- HIGH
- NETWORK
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
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- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
The software checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the software to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published