Description
The product provides an application for administrators to manage parts of the underlying operating system, but the application does not accurately identify all of the relevant entities or resources that exist in the OS; that is, the application’s model of the OS’s state is inconsistent with the OS’s actual state.
Modes of Introduction:
– Architecture and Design
Related Weaknesses
Consequences
Access Control: Varies by Context
Accountability: Hide Activities
Other: Unexpected State
Potential Mitigations
Phase: Architecture and Design
Description:
CVE References
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