Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE Definition / CWE-1431

    CWE-1431: Driving Intermediate Cryptographic State/Results to Hardware Module Outputs

    The product uses a hardware module implementing a cryptographic algorithm that writes sensitive information about the intermediate state or results of its cryptographic operations via one of its output wires (typically the output port containing the final result).

    Published:15 Aug 2022
    Organization:MITRE
    Modified:28 Oct 2026

    Related Weakness

    CWE-201: Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data

    CWE-497: Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere

    CWE-325: Missing Cryptographic Step

    CWE-1420: Exposure of Sensitive Information during Transient Execution

    CWE-1258: Exposure of Sensitive System Information Due to Uncleared Debug Information