CVE-2020-27211

MEDIUM

5.7

Description

Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 devices through 2020-10-19 have improper protection against physical side channels. The flash read-out protection (APPROTECT) can be bypassed by injecting a fault during the boot phase.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.7

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack VectorPHYSICAL

ComplexityHIGH

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published5/21/2021

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

nordicsemi:nrf52840nordicsemi:nrf52840_firmware

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-203

References

https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/640(cve@mitre.org)

https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/pdf/in_133_v1.0.pdf(cve@mitre.org)

https://limitedresults.com/2020/06/nrf52-debug-resurrection-approtect-bypass/(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/de/das-institut/wissenschaftliche-exzellenz/security-and-trust-in-open-source-security-tokens.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/en/FirmwareProtection.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/640(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/pdf/in_133_v1.0.pdf(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://limitedresults.com/2020/06/nrf52-debug-resurrection-approtect-bypass/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/de/das-institut/wissenschaftliche-exzellenz/security-and-trust-in-open-source-security-tokens.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/en/FirmwareProtection.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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