Mechanism · Hardware-enabled guarantees (flexHEG) and guarantee processors

Firmware-only retrofits rely on Secure Boot, which fault injection can bypass

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Part II notes that the most common attack on Secure Boot replaces the firmware and applies a voltage glitch while the signature is being checked. It also notes that sophisticated actors may use microprobing or laser voltage probing to read key registers 2.

Sources: [2]

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