Modos de Introdução
Architecture and Design : Such issues could be introduced during hardware architecture and design and identified later during Testing or System Configuration phases.
Implementation : Such issues could be introduced during implementation and identified later during Testing or System Configuration phases.
Plataformas Aplicáveis
Linguagem
Class: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)
Sistemas Operacionais
Class: Not OS-Specific (Undetermined)
Arquiteturas
Class: Not Architecture-Specific (Undetermined)
Tecnologias
Class: Not Technology-Specific (Undetermined)
Consequências Comuns
| Escopo |
Impacto |
Probabilidade |
| Confidentiality | Read Application Data, Read Memory
Note: Microarchitectural side-channels have been used to leak specific information such as cryptographic keys, and Address Space Layout Randomization (ALSR) offsets as well as arbitrary memory. | |
Mitigações Potenciais
Phases : Architecture and Design
Microarchitectural covert channels can be addressed using a mixture of hardware and software mitigation techniques. These include partitioned caches, new barrier and flush instructions, and disabling high resolution performance counters and timers.
Phases : Requirements
Microarchitectural covert channels can be addressed using a mixture of hardware and software mitigation techniques. These include partitioned caches, new barrier and flush instructions, and disabling high resolution performance counters and timers.
Notas de Mapeamento de Vulnerabilidade
Justificativa : 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.
Comentário : 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.
Padrões de Ataque Relacionados
| CAPEC-ID |
Nome do Padrão de Ataque |
| CAPEC-663 |
Exploitation of Transient Instruction Execution
An adversary exploits a hardware design flaw in a CPU implementation of transient instruction execution to expose sensitive data and bypass/subvert access control over restricted resources. Typically, the adversary conducts a covert channel attack to target non-discarded microarchitectural changes caused by transient executions such as speculative execution, branch prediction, instruction pipelining, and/or out-of-order execution. The transient execution results in a series of instructions (gadgets) which construct covert channel and access/transfer the secret data. |
Notas
As of CWE 4.9, members of the CWE Hardware SIG are closely analyzing this entry and others to improve CWE's coverage of transient execution weaknesses, which include issues related to Spectre, Meltdown, and other attacks. Additional investigation may include other weaknesses related to microarchitectural state. Finally, this entry's demonstrative example might not be appropriate. As a result, this entry might change significantly in CWE 4.10.
Referências
REF-1121
Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space
Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, Thomas Prescher, Werner Haas, Anders Fogh, Jann Horn, Stegfan Mangard, Paul Kocher, Daniel Genkin, Yuval Yarom, Mike Hamberg.
https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf REF-1122
Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution
Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, Thomas Prescher, Werner Haas, Anders Fogh, Jann Horn, Stegfan Mangard, Paul Kocher, Daniel Genkin, Yuval Yarom, Mike Hamberg.
https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf REF-1123
Jump Over ASLR: Attacking Branch Predictors to Bypass ASLR
Dmitry Evtyushkin, Dmitry Ponomarev, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7783743/ REF-1124
A Survey of Microarchitectural Timing Attacks and Countermeasures on Contemporary Hardware
Qian Ge, Yuval Yarom, David Cock, Gernot Heiser.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/613.pdf
Submissão
| Nome |
Organização |
Data |
Data de lançamento |
Version |
| Nicole Fern |
Cycuity (originally submitted as Tortuga Logic) |
2020-05-08 +00:00 |
2020-08-20 +00:00 |
4.2 |
Modificações
| Nome |
Organização |
Data |
Comentário |
| CWE Content Team |
MITRE |
2021-03-15 +00:00 |
updated Related_Attack_Patterns |
| CWE Content Team |
MITRE |
2022-10-13 +00:00 |
updated Demonstrative_Examples, Maintenance_Notes |
| CWE Content Team |
MITRE |
2023-04-27 +00:00 |
updated Relationships |
| CWE Content Team |
MITRE |
2023-06-29 +00:00 |
updated Mapping_Notes, Relationships |
| CWE Content Team |
MITRE |
2025-12-11 +00:00 |
updated Weakness_Ordinalities |