Cache Template Attacks: Automating Attacks on Inclusive Last-Level Caches

Daniel Gruss, Raphael Spreitzer, Stefan Mangard

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Abstract

Recent work on cache attacks has shown that CPU caches represent a powerful source of information leakage. However, existing attacks require manual identification of vulnerabilities, i.e., data accesses or instruction execution depending on secret information. In this paper, we present Cache Template Attacks. This generic attack technique allows us to profile and exploit cache-based information leakage of any program automatically, without prior knowledge of specific software versions or even specific system information. Cache Template Attacks can be executed online on a remote system without any prior offline computations or measurements.

Cache Template Attacks consist of two phases. In the profiling phase, we determine dependencies between the processing of secret information, e.g., specific key inputs or private keys of cryptographic primitives, and specific cache accesses. In the exploitation phase, we derive the secret values based on observed cache accesses. We illustrate the power of the presented approach in several attacks, but also in a useful application for developers. Among the presented attacks is the application of Cache Template Attacks to infer keystrokes and---even more severe---the identification of specific keys on Linux and Windows user interfaces. More specifically, for lower-case only passwords, we can reduce the entropy per character from log2(26)=4.7 to 1.4 bits on Linux systems. Furthermore, we perform an automated attack on the T-table-based AES implementation of OpenSSL that is as efficient as state-of-the-art manual cache attacks.
Originalspracheenglisch
Titel24th USENIX Security Symposium, Washington, D.C., USA, August 12-14, 2015
Herausgeber (Verlag)USENIX Association
Seiten897-912
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2015
Veranstaltung25th USENIX Security Symposium: USENIX Security 2015 - Washington, D.C., USA / Vereinigte Staaten
Dauer: 12 Aug. 201514 Aug. 2015

Konferenz

Konferenz25th USENIX Security Symposium
Land/GebietUSA / Vereinigte Staaten
OrtWashington, D.C.
Zeitraum12/08/1514/08/15

Fields of Expertise

  • Information, Communication & Computing

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  • Application

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