CWE-1249: Ghost in the Shell
The product provides an application for administrators to manage parts of the underlying operating system, but the application does not accurately identify all of the relevant entities or resources that exist in the OS; that is, the application's model of the OS's state is inconsistent with the OS's actual state.
Also known as Application-Level Admin Tool with Inconsistent View of Underlying Operating System.
A kind of CWE-1250 Improper Preservation of Consistency Between Independent Representations of Shared State.
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