CWE-1259

Improper Restriction of Security Token Assignment

The System-On-A-Chip (SoC) implements a Security Token mechanism to differentiate what actions are allowed or disallowed when a transaction originates from an entity. However, the Security Tokens are improperly protected.

CVE-2024-45448 (GCVE-0-2024-45448)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-04 02:19
Modified
2025-09-18 06:35
Severity ?
4.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-1259 - Improper Restriction of Security Token Assignment
Summary
Page table protection configuration vulnerability in the trusted firmware module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Huawei HarmonyOS Version: 4.2.0
Version: 4.0.0
Version: 5.0.0
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Mitigation

Phases: Architecture and Design, Implementation

Description:

  • Security Token assignment review checks for design inconsistency and common weaknesses.
  • Security-Token definition and programming flow is tested in both pre-silicon and post-silicon testing.
CAPEC-121: Exploit Non-Production Interfaces

An adversary exploits a sample, demonstration, test, or debug interface that is unintentionally enabled on a production system, with the goal of gleaning information or leveraging functionality that would otherwise be unavailable.

CAPEC-681: Exploitation of Improperly Controlled Hardware Security Identifiers

An adversary takes advantage of missing or incorrectly configured security identifiers (e.g., tokens), which are used for access control within a System-on-Chip (SoC), to read/write data or execute a given action.

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