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CWE-1278

Missing Protection Against Hardware Reverse Engineering Using Integrated Circuit (IC) Imaging Techniques

Category: BaseCVE: 1
Description

Information stored in hardware may be recovered by an attacker with the capability to capture and analyze images of the integrated circuit using techniques such as scanning electron microscopy.

CVE vulnerabilities with CWE-1278 (1)
6.2
CVSS
MEDIUM
CVE-2021-38394

An attacker with physical access to the device can extract the binary that checks for the hardware key and reverse engineer it, which could be used to create a physical duplicate of a valid hardware key. The hardware key allows access to special settings when inserted.

pub. 2021-10-04
Information
ID: CWE-1278
Type: Base
Vulnerabilities: 1
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