Tên: 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.

Thông tin chung

Các cách xuất hiện

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.

Nền tảng áp dụng

Ngôn ngữ

Lớp: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Hệ điều hành

Lớp: Not OS-Specific (Undetermined)

Kiến trúc

Lớp: Not Architecture-Specific (Undetermined)

Công nghệ

Lớp: Not Technology-Specific (Undetermined)
Tên: Memory Hardware (Undetermined)
Tên: Power Management Hardware (Undetermined)
Tên: Clock/Counter Hardware (Undetermined)

Hậu quả phổ biến

Phạm vi	Tác động	Khả năng xảy ra
Integrity	Modify Memory, Modify Application Data, Bypass Protection Mechanism

Ví dụ đã quan sát

Tài liệu tham khảo	Mô tả
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.

Các biện pháp giảm thiểu tiềm năng

Phases : Architecture and Design // Implementation

Phương pháp phát hiện

Manual Analysis

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

Automated Dynamic Analysis

Hiệu quả : Moderate

Ghi chú ánh xạ lỗ hổng

Lý do : 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.
Bình luận : 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.

Mẫu tấn công liên quan

ID CAPEC	Tên mẫu tấn công
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.

Tài liệu tham khảo

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

Gửi

Tên	Tổ chức	Ngày	Ngày phát hành	Version
Nicole Fern	Cycuity (originally submitted as Tortuga Logic)	2020-05-08 +00:00	2020-02-24 +00:00	4.1

Sửa đổi

Tên	Tổ chức	Ngày	Bình luận
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

Chi tiết CWE-1256

CWE-1256