CVE-2024-32883CWE-354

MCUboot Injection attack of unprotected TLV values

High · published April 26, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

MCUboot is a secure bootloader for 32-bits microcontrollers. MCUboot uses a TLV (tag-length-value) structure to represent the meta data associated with an image. The TLVs themselves are divided into two sections, a protected and an unprotected section. The protected TLV entries are included as part of the image signature to avoid tampering. However, the code does not distinguish which TLV entries should be protected or not, so it is possible for an attacker to add unprotected TLV entries that should be protected. Currently, the primary protected TLV entries should be the dependency indication, and the boot record. An injected dependency value would primarily result in an otherwise acceptable image being rejected. A boot record injection could allow fields in a later attestation record to include data not intended, which could cause an image to appear to have properties that it should not have. As a workaround, disable the boot record functionality.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00127 · 2.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-354 · Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value
Published
2024-04-26T21:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 APR 21:03Z
    MCUboot Injection attack of unprotected TLV values
    cvelistv5