STARM · HW-04 · HARDWARE

Glitching/Fault Injection

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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