MCUBoot Under (good) Pressure | Part 3: Less is more?

Published

2024-06-21 00:00

Collected

2026-10-19 12:25

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id: 10004
title: "MCUBoot Under (good) Pressure | Part 3: Less is more?"
source_domain: eshard.com
source_url: "https://www.eshard.com/blog/mcuboot-under-good-pressure-part-3"
published_at: "2024-06-21T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["vulnerability-research", "reverse-engineering", "fault-injection", "software-security"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/10004"
lang: en
---

# MCUBoot Under (good) Pressure | Part 3: Less is more?

## Summary

Explore the results of a massive fault injection campaign on MCUBoot v1.9.0. Using esReverse to simulate millions of faults, we dissect how "magical values" and redundancy checks fail against simple instruction skips and register zeroing.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** eshard.com
- **Published:** 2024-06-21T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.eshard.com/blog/mcuboot-under-good-pressure-part-3
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/10004