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Before powering down, the Intellectual Property (IP) saves current state (S) to persistent storage
such as flash or always-on memory in order to optimize the restore operation. During this process,
an attacker with access to the persistent storage may alter (S) to a configuration that could
potentially modify privileges, disable protections, and/or cause damage to the hardware. If the IP
does not validate the configuration state stored in persistent memory, upon regaining power or
becoming operational again, the IP could be compromised through the activation of an unwanted/
harmful configuration.
Relationships
The table(s) below shows the weaknesses and high level categories that are related to this
weakness. These relationships are defined as ChildOf, ParentOf, MemberOr and give insight to
similar items that may exist at higher and lower levels of abstraction. In addition, relationships such
as PeerOf and CanAlsoBe are defined to show similar weaknesses that may want to be explored.
Relevant to the view "Research Concepts" (CWE-1000)
Nature Type ID Name Page
ChildOf 284 Improper Access Control 680
PeerOf 345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity 851
Relevant to the view "Hardware Design" (CWE-1194)
Nature Type ID Name Page
PeerOf 1271 Uninitialized Value on Reset for Registers Holding Security
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