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Improper Locking
Improper Locking
CWE-667
Overtime trend (NVD)
CVSS severity (NVD, All Time)
Per technology (GHSA, All time)
58%
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Pip
17%
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Maven
11%
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Rust
11%
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Go
Short description
The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.
Extended description
Best practices to prevent this CWE
Phase: Implementation
Strategy: Libraries or Frameworks
Use industry standard APIs to implement locking mechanism.