What are the consequences of CWE-1229?

Exploiting CWE-1229 can lead to: Varies by Context.

Class weakness

Incomplete

CWE-1229: Creation of Emergent Resource

The product manages resources or behaves in a way that indirectly creates a new, distinct resource that can be used by attackers in violation of the intended policy.

Last updated May 1, 2026

Recorded CVEs

With this primary weakness

KEVs

In the CISA KEV catalog

Not rated

Likelihood of exploit

Per MITRE

Class

Abstraction

MITRE classification

Overview

A product is only expected to behave in a way that was specifically intended by the developer. Resource allocation and management is expected to be performed explicitly by the associated code. However, in systems with complex behavior, the product might indirectly produce new kinds of resources that were never intended in the original design. For example, a covert channel is a resource that was never explicitly intended by the developer, but it is useful to attackers. "Parasitic computing," while not necessarily malicious in nature, effectively tricks a product into performing unintended computations on behalf of another party.

Common consequences

What can happen when CWE-1229 is exploited.

Varies by Context

Affects: Other

How it happens

When it is introduced

Typically introduced during these phases of the software lifecycle.

Implementation

Architecture and Design

Code examples

Illustrative examples from MITRE showing how the weakness appears in code.

In this example, the attacker observes how long an authentication takes when the user types in the correct password.

Vulnerable example

python

def validate_password(actual_pw, typed_pw):

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about CWE-1229.

What is CWE-1229?: The product manages resources or behaves in a way that indirectly creates a new, distinct resource that can be used by attackers in violation of the intended policy.
What are the consequences of CWE-1229?: Exploiting CWE-1229 can lead to: Varies by Context.

References

Weakness data is sourced from the MITRE CWE catalog (v4.20). CVE associations are aggregated and kept current by RadicalNotion.AI.

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