Missing Synchronization

When different parts of your code run concurrently and touch a shared resource without synchronization, the resource's state can become unpredictable. One thread might read a value while another is halfway through modifying it, or two processes might overwrite each other's changes, leading to corrupted data, crashes, or incorrect calculations that break your application's logic. This lack of coordination creates a race condition window that attackers can potentially exploit. By carefully timing their interactions, an attacker might manipulate the shared resource into an unexpected state that bypasses security checks, leaks sensitive information, or causes the system to behave in unintended and insecure ways.