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HyperLink AWS Nitro TEE
Type
Security review
Client
HyperLink
Date
2026-03
Domain
Crypto
Effort
2.2 wks
Section
Cryptography Reviews
Trail of Bits's security review of HyperLink (Mar 2026) identified 24 issues: 3 high, 7 medium, 9 low, and 5 informational.
Findings · 24
- 1 Prover enclave public key not validated against attested public key Medium
- 2 Unauthenticated ephemeral key exchange enables parent MITM attacks Medium
- 3 Attestation verification missing from important operator flows Medium
- 4 Deficiencies in the enclave registration and attestation processes High
- 5 KMS key policy only validates PCR0 Low
- 6 X25519 shared secret used directly without key derivation function Low
- 7 Missing length validation in key exchange response may cause denial of service Low
- 8 Incomplete attestation document validation against AWS Nitro specification Medium
- 9 Missing extension constraint validation in certificate chain verification Informational
- 10 Storage download accepts unbounded allocation size Medium
- 11 Storage rollback attack on database snapshots High
- 12 Backup timestamp not validated during recovery Informational
- 13 Potential integer truncation in database sync Informational
- 14 Missing secret version validation may allow stale credential usage Low
- 15 Clock source verification only logs warning Low
- 16 Documented client-to-enclave encryption not implemented Medium
- 17 Missing signature algorithm validation in X.509 chain verification Informational
- 18 Certificate validity boundary check non-compliance with RFC 5280 Informational
- 19 Template injection vulnerabilities in GitHub Actions workflows Low
- 20 Unpinned external GitHub CI/CD action versions Low
- 21 Potential privilege escalation due to insecure Dockerfile configurations Low
- 22 GitHub Actions role can modify KMS key policies, bypassing attestation requirements High
- 23 HTTP rate limiter configured but never invoked in request handlers Low
- 24 Prover proxy lacks CID validation, message size limits, and connection limits Medium
Findings extracted from the published report PDF. See the full report below for details and remediation.
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