CWE-1256 Detail

CWE-1256

Improper Restriction of Software Interfaces to Hardware Features
Stable
2020-02-24
00h00 +00:00
2025-09-09
00h00 +00:00
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Nome: Improper Restriction of Software Interfaces to Hardware Features

The product provides software-controllable device functionality for capabilities such as power and clock management, but it does not properly limit functionality that can lead to modification of hardware memory or register bits, or the ability to observe physical side channels.

General Informations

Modes Of Introduction

Architecture and Design : An architect may initiate introduction of this weakness via exacting requirements for software accessible power/clock management requirements
Implementation : An implementer may introduce this weakness by assuming there are no consequences to unbounded power and clock management for secure components from untrusted ones.

Piattaforme applicabili

Linguaggio

Class: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Sistemi operativi

Class: Not OS-Specific (Undetermined)

Architetture

Class: Not Architecture-Specific (Undetermined)

Tecnologie

Class: Not Technology-Specific (Undetermined)
Name: Memory Hardware (Undetermined)
Name: Power Management Hardware (Undetermined)
Name: Clock/Counter Hardware (Undetermined)

Conseguenze comuni

Ambito Impatto Probabilità
IntegrityModify Memory, Modify Application Data, Bypass Protection Mechanism

Esempi osservati

Riferimenti Descrizione

CVE-2019-11157

Plundervolt: Improper conditions check in voltage settings for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or information disclosure via local access [REF-1081].

CVE-2020-8694

PLATYPUS Attack: Insufficient access control in the Linux kernel driver for some Intel processors allows information disclosure.

CVE-2020-8695

Observable discrepancy in the RAPL interface for some Intel processors allows information disclosure.

CVE-2020-12912

AMD extension to a Linux service does not require privileged access to the RAPL interface, allowing side-channel attacks.

CVE-2015-0565

NaCl in 2015 allowed the CLFLUSH instruction, making Rowhammer attacks possible.

Potential Mitigations

Phases : Architecture and Design // Implementation

Detection Methods

Manual Analysis

Perform a security evaluation of system-level architecture and design with software-aided physical attacks in scope.

Automated Dynamic Analysis

Effectiveness : Moderate

Note sulla mappatura delle vulnerabilità

Giustificazione : This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.
Commento : Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

Pattern di attacco correlati

CAPEC-ID Nome del pattern di attacco
CAPEC-624 Hardware Fault Injection
The adversary uses disruptive signals or events, or alters the physical environment a device operates in, to cause faulty behavior in electronic devices. This can include electromagnetic pulses, laser pulses, clock glitches, ambient temperature extremes, and more. When performed in a controlled manner on devices performing cryptographic operations, this faulty behavior can be exploited to derive secret key information.
CAPEC-625 Mobile Device Fault Injection
Fault injection attacks against mobile devices use disruptive signals or events (e.g. electromagnetic pulses, laser pulses, clock glitches, etc.) to cause faulty behavior. When performed in a controlled manner on devices performing cryptographic operations, this faulty behavior can be exploited to derive secret key information. Although this attack usually requires physical control of the mobile device, it is non-destructive, and the device can be used after the attack without any indication that secret keys were compromised.

Riferimenti

REF-1081

Plundervolt
Kit Murdock, David Oswald, Flavio D Garcia, Jo Van Bulck, Frank Piessens, Daniel Gruss.
https://plundervolt.com/

REF-1082

CLKSCREW: Exposing the Perils of Security-Oblivious Energy Management
Adrian Tang, Simha Sethumadhavan, Salvatore Stolfo.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity17/sec17-tang.pdf

REF-1083

Flipping Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them: An Experimental Study of DRAM Disturbance Errors
Yoongu Kim, Ross Daly, Jeremie Kim, Ji Hye Lee, Donghyuk Lee, Chris Wilkerson, Konrad Lai, Onur Mutlu.
https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~yoonguk/papers/kim-isca14.pdf

REF-1225

Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges
Project Zero.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html

REF-1217

Security Engineering
Ross Anderson.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/SEv1.pdf

Invio

Nome Organizzazione Data Data di rilascio Version
Nicole Fern Cycuity (originally submitted as Tortuga Logic) 2020-05-08 +00:00 2020-02-24 +00:00 4.1

Modifiche

Nome Organizzazione Data Commento
CWE Content Team MITRE 2020-08-20 +00:00 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Description, Maintenance_Notes, Related_Attack_Patterns
CWE Content Team MITRE 2021-03-15 +00:00 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Functional_Areas, Maintenance_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2021-07-20 +00:00 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Observed_Examples
CWE Content Team MITRE 2021-10-28 +00:00 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Description, Detection_Factors, Maintenance_Notes, Modes_of_Introduction, Name, Observed_Examples, References, Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities
CWE Content Team MITRE 2022-04-28 +00:00 updated Applicable_Platforms
CWE Content Team MITRE 2022-06-28 +00:00 updated Applicable_Platforms
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-01-31 +00:00 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-04-27 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-06-29 +00:00 updated Mapping_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2025-04-03 +00:00 updated Demonstrative_Examples
CWE Content Team MITRE 2025-09-09 +00:00 updated Relationships
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