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New Attacks Against Secure Enclaves

ID: 37c70eb7-00bc-5454-be75-2c32998735a8

STIX ID: report--37c70eb7-00bc-5454-be75-2c32998735a8

Feed Name: Schneier on Security

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2025-11-10

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Bruce Schneier

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The article describes a newly released low-cost physical attack named TEE.fail that can defeat modern secure enclaves (Confidential Compute, SEV-SNP, TDX/SDX) across major CPU vendors by placing a small hardware device between a memory chip and the motherboard and requiring a compromised OS kernel; it works on DDR5 and significantly weakens the threat model for TEEs.

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