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Hackers Can Tweak Intel CPU Voltage To Steal Cryptocurrency

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December 11, 2019
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Scientists from European Universities have disclosed a vulnerability in Intel processors that could allow hackers to steal crypto keys by modifying CPU voltage. The attack dubbed Plundervolt can raid Intel’s Software Guard Extension (SGX), which is a secure CPU environment that encrypts certain parts of memory, and only specific programs are allowed to access it.

Plundervolt attack tweaks CPU voltage in the interface that is generally used by gamers for overclocking the CPU. According to scientists, they discovered the vulnerability by fluctuating the voltage and frequency received by CPUs. The fluctuation can cause errors inside SGX and inject faults to trigger memory safety errors.

Intel says that following CPUs have been affected by the Plundervolt attack:

  • Intel Xeon Processor E3 v5 & v6
  • Intel Xeon Processor E-2100 & E-2200 families
  • Intel 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th generation CoreTM processors

The attack exploits the dynamic voltage scaling feature in Intel CPUs, which can be triggered by a specific Model Specific Register (MSR).

Scientists write in the research paper: “Using this interface to very briefly decrease the CPU voltage during a computation in a victim SGX enclave, we show that a privileged adversary is able to inject faults into protected enclave computations.”

Undervolting Intel CPUs induces bit flips in CPU instructions itself, such as multiplications or AES rounds, according to David Oswald, an academic at the University of Birmingham (via ZDNet).

Plundervolt attack not only degrades the encryption of SGX secured data but can also introduce new bugs inside secure applications. Such bugs can be exploited at a later stage by remote hackers.

On a positive note, the Plundervolt attack cannot be executed remotely as a hacker needs to have root or admin privileges of the infected host. This pre-requisite makes it fairly difficult but not impossible.

The Plundervolt attack has been tagged as CVE-2019-11157, and Intel has released patches today. After installing the patch, administrators can lock the voltage and control interface from BIOS options.

We recommend our readers to install Microcode and BIOS updates as soon as you receive.

Also Read: Chrome 79 Released With Tab Suspender To Fix ‘High CPU Usage’
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