CWE-1431: Driving Intermediate Cryptographic… | Glexia
CWE-1431 (Driving Intermediate Cryptographic State/Results to Hardware Module Outputs) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations, related…
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CWE-1431: Driving Intermediate Cryptographic State/Results to Hardware Module Outputs
Driving Intermediate Cryptographic State/Results to Hardware Module Outputs 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-1431 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-1431, 4.20.
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
Official CWE Definition
CWE-1431: Driving Intermediate Cryptographic State/Results to Hardware Module Outputs
The product uses a hardware module implementing a cryptographic algorithm that writes sensitive information about the intermediate state or results of its cryptographic operations via one of its output wires (typically the output port containing the final result).
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
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Remediation
- Architecture and Design:
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Detection
- Automated Static Analysis - Source Code:
- Simulation / Emulation:
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- Manual Analysis:
Mappings
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ATT&CK Relevance
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