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CWE-1301 (Insufficient or Incomplete Data Removal within Hardware Component) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations, related CVEs and…
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CWE-1301: Insufficient or Incomplete Data Removal within Hardware Component
Insufficient or Incomplete Data Removal within Hardware Component represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Confidentiality: Read Memory Read Application Data
Developer Pattern
CWE-1301 is the kind of defect developers can usually prevent with explicit validation, safer framework defaults, and tests that exercise hostile input or unsafe state transitions.
Automation confidence
high confidence from CWE-1301, 4.20.
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Official CWE Definition
CWE-1301: Insufficient or Incomplete Data Removal within Hardware Component
The product's data removal process does not completely delete all data and potentially sensitive information within hardware components.
Physical properties of hardware devices, such as remanence of magnetic media, residual charge of ROMs/RAMs, or screen burn-in may still retain sensitive data after a data removal process has taken place and power is removed. Recovering data after erasure or overwriting is possible due to a phenomenon called data remanence. For example, if the same value is written repeatedly to a memory location, the corresponding memory cells can become physically altered to a degree such that even after the original data is erased that data can still be recovered through physical characterization of the memory cells.
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- Missing validation
- Unsafe defaults
- Insufficient authorization or memory-safety invariant
Remediation
- Architecture and Design: Apply blinding or masking techniques to implementations of cryptographic algorithms.
- Implementation: Alter the method of erasure, add protection of media, or destroy the media to protect the data.
Detection
- Code review
- SAST
- DAST
- Focused regression tests
Mappings
Related CVEs, CWEs, and ATT&CK context
Related CWEs
ATT&CK Relevance
ATT&CK relevance is shown only when reviewed or responsibly inferred.