CWE-1278 Missing Protection Against Hardware Reverse Engineering Using Integrated Circuit (IC) Imaging Techniques

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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.

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parent weaknesses

Broader classes this is a kind of.

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vulnerabilities (1)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2021-38394USmedium6.4—
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 o…
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attack patterns (3)

CAPEC attack patterns that exploit this.

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