Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-1298

Allowed

Hardware Logic Contains Race Conditions

Abstraction: Base · Status: Draft

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A race condition in the hardware logic results in undermining security guarantees of the system.

5 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

CVE-2026-20707 (GCVE-0-2026-20707)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-11 16:25 – Updated: 2026-08-12 15:52
VLAI
Summary
Hardware logic contains race conditions for some 3rd Gen Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors within Ring 3: unprivileged software may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable denial of service. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not present with special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (high) impacts.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-12 15:52 UTC
CWE
  • Denial of Service
  • CWE-1298 - Hardware Logic Contains Race Conditions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a 3rd Gen Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors Affected: See references
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CVE-2023-45733 (GCVE-0-2023-45733)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-16 20:47 – Updated: 2024-08-02 20:29
VLAI
Summary
Hardware logic contains race conditions in some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable partial information disclosure via local access.
Severity
2.8 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-24 16:02 UTC
CWE
  • information disclosure
  • CWE-1298 - Hardware logic contains race conditions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Intel(R) Processors Affected: See references
Show details on NVD website
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GHSA-33H2-RXGW-84JC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-09-04 03:30 – Updated: 2024-04-04 07:24
VLAI
Details

In ims service, there is a possible memory corruption due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS07937105; Issue ID: ALPS07937105.

Severity
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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GHSA-F6FV-42VR-3QVP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-11 18:30 – Updated: 2026-08-11 18:30
VLAI
Details

Hardware logic contains race conditions for some 3rd Gen Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors within Ring 3: unprivileged software may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable denial of service. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not present with special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (high) impacts.

Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
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GHSA-FG3P-42CV-C5CM

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-05-16 21:32 – Updated: 2024-05-16 21:32
VLAI
Details

Hardware logic contains race conditions in some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable partial information disclosure via local access.

Severity
2.8 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
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Mitigation
Architecture and Design

Adopting design practices that encourage designers to recognize and eliminate race conditions, such as Karnaugh maps, could result in the decrease in occurrences of race conditions.

Mitigation
Implementation

Logic redundancy can be implemented along security critical paths to prevent race conditions. To avoid metastability, it is a good practice in general to default to a secure state in which access is not given to untrusted agents.

CAPEC-26: Leveraging Race Conditions

The adversary targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently, and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The adversary can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance, a race condition can occur while accessing a file: the adversary can trick the system by replacing the original file with their version and cause the system to read the malicious file.

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