Xilinx Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-5478

A weakness was found in Encrypt Only boot mode in Zynq UltraScale+ devices. This could lead to an adversary being able to modify the control fields of the boot image leading to an incorrect secure boot behavior.

CVE-2021-27208

When booting a Zync-7000 SOC device from nand flash memory, the nand driver in the ROM does not validate the inputs when reading in any parameters in the nand’s parameter page. IF a field read in from the parameter page is too large, this causes a buffer overflow that could lead to arbitrary code e...

CVE-2022-23822

In this physical attack, an attacker may potentially exploit the Zynq-7000 SoC First Stage Boot Loader (FSBL) by bypassing authentication and loading a malicious image onto the device. This in turn may further allow the attacker to perform additional attacks such as such as using the device as a de...