CVE-2023-43630 Information

Description

PCR14 is not in the list of PCRs that seal/unseal the “vault” key but due to the change that was implemented in commit “7638364bc0acf8b5c481b5ce5fea11ad44ad7fd4” fixing this issue alone would not solve the problem of the config partition not being measured correctly.

Also the “vault” key is sealed/unsealed with SHA1 PCRs instead of SHA256. This issue was somewhat mitigated due to all of the PCR extend functions updating both the values of SHA256 and SHA1 for a given PCR ID.

However due to the change that was implemented in commit “7638364bc0acf8b5c481b5ce5fea11ad44ad7fd4” this is no longer the case for PCR14 as the code in “measurefs.go” explicitly updates only the SHA256 instance of PCR14 which means that even if PCR14 were to be added to the list of PCRs sealing/unsealing the “vault” key changes to the config partition would still not be measured.

An attacker could modify the config partition without triggering the measured boot this could result in the attacker gaining full control over the device with full access to the contents of the encrypted “vault”

Reference

https://asrg.io/security-advisories/config-partition-not-measured-from-2-fronts/