STARM · HW-04 · HARDWARE
Glitching/Fault Injection
STARMCatalog entries from the DIPS Threat Inventory. The paper cites that dataset and does not use this name.
Inducing voltage spikes to bypass secure boot.
Severity in the dataset7/10
Not the paper’s H/M/L.
- Target
- Program Logic
- Layer in the inventory
- CPU / Memory Bus
- Mitigation
- Voltage regulators and error-detecting code.
- How the inventory says to fix it
- Rule-based: Redundant execution and error-correcting codes (ECC). AI: Real-time voltage anomaly detection.
- Quick fix
- System Reboot
- ML approaches named
- Random Forest & XGBoost, Support Vector Machines (SVM), Decision Trees, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) / LSTM / GRU, Autoencoders (Unsupervised)
- Methodology
- By analyzing power traces, electromagnetic emissions, or instruction flow anomalies, for identifying subtle behavioral shifts in hardware that could indicate tampering
- Handler role
- Embedded Engineer
- Stage
- Operation
- Standard named
- ISO/IEC 15408
- Status in the inventory
- Fixed
STARMCatalog entries from the DIPS Threat Inventory. The paper cites that dataset and does not use this name.
Connection recorded in the inventory
Insecure Bootloader