Exploiting Race Conditions in Web Applications — A Practical Guide

# Race Conditions in Web Applications ## What is a Race Condition? A race condition occurs when multiple threads or processes access shared resources simultaneously, leading to unexpected behavior. ## Real-World Example Consider an e-commerce application where a user can redeem a coupon code. If the application doesn't properly handle concurrent requests, a user could redeem the same coupon multiple times. ## Tools Used - Burp Suite Turbo Intruder - Python asyncio - curl with GNU parallel