Normally, developers use "locks" (mutexes or semaphores) to prevent this. But when a lock is missing or flawed, chaos ensues. This chaos is a goldmine for a .

Add a version column to your database.

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While we often don't see the source code in a black-box challenge, the behavior suggests logic similar to this: