CWE-386: Symbolic Name not Mapping to Correct Object

Gain Privileges or Assume Identity

Affects: Access Control

The attacker can gain access to otherwise unauthorized resources.

Modify Application Data, Modify Files or Directories, Read Application Data, Read Files or Directories, Other

Affects: Integrity, Confidentiality, Other

Race conditions such as this kind may be employed to gain read or write access to resources not normally readable or writable by the user in question.

Modify Application Data, Other

Affects: Integrity, Other

The resource in question, or other resources (through the corrupted one) may be changed in undesirable ways by a malicious user.

Hide Activities

Affects: Non-Repudiation

If a file or other resource is written in this method, as opposed to a valid way, logging of the activity may not occur.

Modify Files or Directories

Affects: Non-Repudiation, Integrity

In some cases it may be possible to delete files that a malicious user might not otherwise have access to -- such as log files.