CWE-1384: Improper Handling of Extreme Physical Environment Conditions
Weakness ID: 1384
Abstraction: Base Structure: Simple
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Description
The product does not properly detect and handle extreme conditions in the product's physical environment, such as temperature, radiation, humidity, power, or other physical phenomena.
Extended Description
Hardware products are typically only guaranteed to behave correctly within certain environmental limits, such as running between minimum and maximum temperatures. Such products cannot necessarily control the external conditions that they are subjected to. However, the inability to detect and handle such conditions can cause the product to produce security-critical errors, e.g., flipping a bit that is used for an authentication decision. In addition, these physical conditions could be intentionally manipulated by an adversary to directly trigger such errors, although it might be technically difficult to do so.
Relationships
This table shows the weaknesses and high level categories that are related to this weakness. These relationships are defined as ChildOf, ParentOf, MemberOf 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 the user may want to explore.
Relevant to the view "Research Concepts" (CWE-1000)
Nature
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ChildOf
Pillar - a weakness that is the most abstract type of weakness and represents a theme for all class/base/variant weaknesses related to it. A Pillar is different from a Category as a Pillar is still technically a type of weakness that describes a mistake, while a Category represents a common characteristic used to group related things.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The different Modes of Introduction provide information about how and when this weakness may be introduced. The Phase identifies a point in the life cycle at which introduction may occur, while the Note provides a typical scenario related to introduction during the given phase.
Phase
Note
Architecture and Design
The product’s design might not consider checking and handling extreme conditions.
Manufacturing
For hardware manufacturing, sub-par components might be chosen that are not able to handle the expected environmental conditions.
Applicable Platforms
This listing shows possible areas for which the given weakness could appear. These may be for specific named Languages, Operating Systems, Architectures, Paradigms, Technologies, or a class of such platforms. The platform is listed along with how frequently the given weakness appears for that instance.
Technologies
Class: System on Chip (Undetermined Prevalence)
Common Consequences
This table specifies different individual consequences associated with the weakness. The Scope identifies the application security area that is violated, while the Impact describes the negative technical impact that arises if an adversary succeeds in exploiting this weakness. The Likelihood provides information about how likely the specific consequence is expected to be seen relative to the other consequences in the list. For example, there may be high likelihood that a weakness will be exploited to achieve a certain impact, but a low likelihood that it will be exploited to achieve a different impact.
Scope
Impact
Likelihood
Confidentiality Integrity Availability
Technical Impact: Varies by Context; Unexpected State
Consequences of this weakness are highly dependent on the role of affected components within the larger product.
Potential Mitigations
Phase: Requirements
In requirements, be specific about expectations for how the product will perform when it exceeds high environmental conditions, e.g., by shutting down.
Phases: Architecture and Design; Implementation
Where possible, include independent components that can detect excess environmental conditions and have the capability to shut down the product.
Phases: Architecture and Design; Implementation
Where possible, use shielding or other materials that can increase the adversary's workload and reduce the likelihood of being able to successfully trigger a security-related failure.
Memberships
This MemberOf Relationships table shows additional CWE Categories and Views that reference this weakness as a member. This information is often useful in understanding where a weakness fits within the context of external information sources.
Nature
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MemberOf
Category - a CWE entry that contains a set of other entries that share a common characteristic.
Description
This table shows the weaknesses and high level categories that are related to this weakness. These relationships are defined as ChildOf, ParentOf, MemberOf 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 the user may want to explore.
