CWE-1261 Improper Handling of Single Event Upsets in Hardware
Random bit flips from cosmic rays or interference can change a privilege level. CWE-1261 covers redundancy and error correction for security-critical memory.
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Random bit flips from cosmic rays or interference can change a privilege level. CWE-1261 covers redundancy and error correction for security-critical memory.
If low privilege software can program a region that overlaps a protected one, it can read or corrupt privileged memory. CWE-1260 covers the priority and check fixes.
A buffer over-read returns memory after the end of a buffer. Learn how missing terminators and bad lengths cause it, and how to test for and fix it.
SoCs use security tokens to tell which agent did what. CWE-1259 covers tokens that untrusted components can reassign, and the review that catches it.
Keys and intermediate crypto values sitting in registers can be read once debug mode opens. CWE-1258 covers the hardware case and the debug log variant.
Block one address and forget its alias, and untrusted code walks in through the other. CWE-1257 explains aliased memory and how to keep protections consistent.
Power and clock controls reachable from software can give remote attackers fault injection and side channels. CWE-1256 covers the access control they need.
A device that checks a PIN byte by byte can leak the answer through its power draw. CWE-1255 covers why unlimited retries make it worse and how to mask it.
Comparing secrets one byte at a time and stopping at the first mismatch leaks the answer through timing. CWE-1254 shows the bug and the constant-time fix.
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