CWE-1299

Missing Protection Mechanism for Alternate Hardware Interface

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Description

The lack of protections on alternate paths to access control-protected assets (such as unprotected shadow registers and other external facing unguarded interfaces) allows an attacker to bypass existing protections to the asset that are only performed against the primary path.

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Related attack patterns (CAPEC)

CAPEC-457 · CAPEC-554

CVEs mapped to this weakness (4)

CVE	Sev	Risk	CVSS	Published	Description
CVE-2025-35998	Hig	0.51	7.9	Feb 10, 2026	Missing protection mechanism for alternate hardware interface in the Intel(R) Quick Assist Technology for some Intel(R) Platforms within Ring 0: Kernel may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are present with special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
CVE-2025-1073	Hig	0.49	7.5	Apr 10, 2025	Panasonic IR Control Hub (IR Blaster) versions 1.17 and earlier may allow an attacker with physical access to load unauthorized firmware onto the device.
CVE-2025-26409	Med	0.44	6.8	Feb 11, 2025	A serial interface can be accessed with physical access to the PCB of Wattsense Bridge devices. After connecting to the interface, access to the bootloader is possible, as well as a Linux login prompt. The bootloader access can be used to gain a root shell on the device. This issue is fixed in recent firmware versions BSP >= 6.4.1.
CVE-2024-47944	Med	0.44	6.8	Oct 15, 2024	The device directly executes .patch firmware upgrade files on a USB stick without any prior authentication in the admin interface. This leads to an unauthenticated code execution via the firmware upgrade function.