CWE - CWE-1343: Weaknesses in the 2021 CWE Most Important Hardware Weaknesses List (4.17)

View ID: 1343

Vulnerability Mapping: PROHIBITED This CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities
Type: Explicit

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Objective

CWE entries in this view are listed in the 2021 CWE Most Important Hardware Weaknesses List, as determined by the Hardware CWE Special Interest Group (HW CWE SIG).

Audience

Stakeholder	Description
Hardware Designers	By following this list, hardware designers and implementers are able to significantly reduce the number of weaknesses that occur in their products.
Product Customers	Customers can use the weaknesses in this view in order to formulate independent evidence of a claim by a product vendor to have eliminated / mitigated the most dangerous weaknesses.
Educators	Educators can use this view to focus curriculum on the most important hardware weaknesses.

Membership

Nature	Type	ID	Name
HasMember	Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1189	Improper Isolation of Shared Resources on System-on-a-Chip (SoC)
HasMember	Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1191	On-Chip Debug and Test Interface With Improper Access Control
HasMember	Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1231	Improper Prevention of Lock Bit Modification
HasMember	Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1233	Security-Sensitive Hardware Controls with Missing Lock Bit Protection
HasMember	Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1240	Use of a Cryptographic Primitive with a Risky Implementation
HasMember	Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1244	Internal Asset Exposed to Unsafe Debug Access Level or State
HasMember	Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1256	Improper Restriction of Software Interfaces to Hardware Features
HasMember	Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1260	Improper Handling of Overlap Between Protected Memory Ranges
HasMember	Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1272	Sensitive Information Uncleared Before Debug/Power State Transition
HasMember	Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1274	Improper Access Control for Volatile Memory Containing Boot Code
HasMember	Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1277	Firmware Not Updateable
HasMember	Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.	1300	Improper Protection of Physical Side Channels

Vulnerability Mapping Notes

Usage: PROHIBITED

(this CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities)

Reason: View

Rationale:

This entry is a View. Views are not weaknesses and therefore inappropriate to describe the root causes of vulnerabilities.

Comments:

Use this View or other Views to search and navigate for the appropriate weakness.

References

[REF-1238] MITRE. "2021 CWE Most Important Hardware Weaknesses". 2021-10-28. <https://cwe.mitre.org/scoring/lists/2021_CWE_MiHW.html>. URL validated: 2024-11-17.

View Metrics

	CWEs in this view		Total CWEs
Weaknesses	12	out of	943
Categories	0	out of	374
Views	0	out of	51
Total	12	out of	1368

Content History

Submissions
Submission Date	Submitter	Organization
2021-09-29 (CWE 4.6, 2021-10-28)	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2021-09-29 (CWE 4.6, 2021-10-28)
Modifications
Modification Date	Modifier	Organization
2023-06-29	CWE Content Team	MITRE
2023-06-29	updated Mapping_Notes

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