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CWE-1193 – Power-On of Untrusted Execution Core Before Enabling Fabric Access Control

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Description

The product enables components that contain untrusted firmware before memory and fabric access controls have been enabled.

Modes of Introduction:

 

 

Related Weaknesses

CWE-696

 

Consequences

Access Control: Bypass Protection Mechanism

An untrusted component can master transactions on the HW bus and target memory or other assets to compromise the SoC boot firmware.

 

Potential Mitigations

Phase: Architecture and Design

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CVE References