SoK: On the Security Challenges and Risks of Multi-Tenant FPGAs in the Cloud

09/29/2020
by   Shaza Zeitouni, et al.
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In their continuous growth and penetration into new markets, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have recently made their way into hardware acceleration of machine learning among other specialized compute-intensive services in cloud data centers, such as Amazon and Microsoft. To further maximize their utilization in the cloud, several academic works propose the spatial multi-tenant deployment model, where the FPGA fabric is simultaneously shared among mutually mistrusting clients. This is enabled by leveraging the partial reconfiguration property of FPGAs, which allows to split the FPGA fabric into several logically isolated regions and reconfigure the functionality of each region independently at runtime. In this paper, we survey industrial and academic deployment models of multi-tenant FPGAs in the cloud computing settings, and highlight their different adversary models and security guarantees, while shedding light on their fundamental shortcomings from a security standpoint. We further survey and classify existing academic works that demonstrate a new class of remotely exploitable physical attacks on multi-tenant FPGA devices, where these attacks are launched remotely by malicious clients sharing physical resources with victim users. Through investigating the problem of end-to-end multi-tenant FPGA deployment more comprehensively, we reveal how these attacks actually represent only one dimension of the problem, while various open security and privacy challenges remain unaddressed. We conclude with our insights and a call for future research to tackle these challenges.

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