CWE-1257 Improper Access Control Applied to Mirrored or Aliased Memory Regions

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Aliased or mirrored memory regions in hardware designs may have inconsistent read/write permissions enforced by the hardware. A possible result is that an untrusted agent is blocked from accessing a memory region but is not blocked from accessing the corresponding aliased memory region.

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parent weaknesses

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vulnerabilities (3)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2019-1174USmedium4.6—
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the PsmServiceExtHost.dll handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could e…
CVE-2025-27032US——
memory corruption while loading a PIL authenticated VM, when authenticated VM image is loaded without maintaining cache coherency.
CVE-2025-36600US——
Dell Client Platform BIOS contains an Improper Access Control Applied to Mirrored or Aliased Memory Regions vulnerability in an externally developed component. A high privileged at…
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attack patterns (2)

CAPEC attack patterns that exploit this.

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