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CWE-1338Improper Protections Against Hardware Overheating

Category: other

Description

A hardware device is missing or has inadequate protection features to prevent overheating.

Common consequences· 1

  • Availability — DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)

Potential mitigations· 2

  • [Architecture and Design]Temperature maximum and minimum limits should be enforced using thermal sensors both in silicon and at the platform level.
  • [Implementation]The platform should support cooling solutions such as fans that can be modulated based on device-operation needs to maintain a stable temperature.

Related CAPEC attack patterns· 2

CAPEC-624CAPEC-625

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1338.html

Exploits (incoming)2

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
AttackPatternHardware Fault Injectioncapec-624100%live
AttackPatternMobile Device Fault Injectioncapec-625100%live

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

CWE
Improper Handling of Hardware Behavior in Exceptionally Cold Environments
CWE
Improper Protection Against Voltage and Clock Glitches
CWE
Semiconductor Defects in Hardware Logic with Security-Sensitive Implications
CWE
Hardware Logic Contains Race Conditions
CWE
Improperly Preserved Integrity of Hardware Configuration State During a Power Save/Restore Operation
CWE
Improper Handling of Faults that Lead to Instruction Skips
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.