Access Control
Gain Privileges or Assume Identity
The attacker can gain access to otherwise unauthorized resources.
Integrity, Confidentiality, Other
Modify Application Data, Modify Files or Directories, Read Application Data, Read Files or Directories, 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.
Integrity, Other
Modify Application Data, Other
The resource in question, or other resources (through the corrupted one) may be changed in undesirable ways by a malicious user.
Non-Repudiation
Hide Activities
If a file or other resource is written in this method, as opposed to a valid way, logging of the activity may not occur.
Non-Repudiation, Integrity
Modify Files or Directories
In some cases it may be possible to delete files that a malicious user might not otherwise have access to -- such as log files.