Forced Deadlock
Variants:
Direct
Also Known As:
Unrestricted Externally Accessible Lock
Vector Type:
Attack
Relevance:
Generic
Layer:
Application-Level
Platforms:
Any
Target Type:
Application
Affected Mechanisms:
Synchronization
Invented In:
01/01/1999
Added In:
25/12/2014
Vector Operation Method:
Attackers abuse a feature that locks resources which other entities require access to, in order to deny service or cause unexpected behaviours. Locked resources come in the form of static fields, files, tables, fields, rows, etc.