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CWE-1342

Information Exposure through Microarchitectural State after Transient Execution

2 CVEs Avg CVSS 6.7 MITRE
0
CRITICAL
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HIGH
2
MEDIUM
0
LOW
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POC
0
KEV

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CVE-2026-18796 Sep 07, 08:07 MEDIUM This Month

The nRF5340 SoC's on-the-fly QSPI flash decryption scheme for Execute-in-Place (XIP) contains a cryptographic architectural weakness that allows a physically-present attacker to undermine the confidentiality and integrity of externally stored encrypted firmware. Applications built on the nRF5340 that use external QSPI flash for encrypted XIP and rely on that encryption for firmware IP protection or tamper resistance are affected regardless of nRF Connect SDK version, as the root cause is in the SoC's hardware decryption block. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis; the weakness is intrinsic to the hardware architecture and cannot be fully resolved through a software-only patch.

Nrf5340
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
6.8
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2023-28746 Mar 14, 17:15 MEDIUM This Month

Information exposure through microarchitectural state after transient execution from some register files for some Intel(R) Atom(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Intel
NVD
CVSS 3.1
6.5
EPSS
0.0%
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM This Month

The nRF5340 SoC's on-the-fly QSPI flash decryption scheme for Execute-in-Place (XIP) contains a cryptographic architectural weakness that allows a physically-present attacker to undermine the confidentiality and integrity of externally stored encrypted firmware. Applications built on the nRF5340 that use external QSPI flash for encrypted XIP and rely on that encryption for firmware IP protection or tamper resistance are affected regardless of nRF Connect SDK version, as the root cause is in the SoC's hardware decryption block. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis; the weakness is intrinsic to the hardware architecture and cannot be fully resolved through a software-only patch.

Nrf5340
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Information exposure through microarchitectural state after transient execution from some register files for some Intel(R) Atom(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Intel
NVD

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