Common Weakness Enumeration
CWE Definition / CWE-1249
CWE-1249: Application-Level Admin Tool with Inconsistent View of Underlying Operating System
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.
Published:6 Jun 2019
Organization:MITRE
Modified:11 Dec 2025
Related Weakness
CWE-1250: Improper Preservation of Consistency Between Independent Representations of Shared State
