Ganiga, Srinidhi RathnakarSrinidhi RathnakarGanigaBerger, Bernhard JohannesBernhard JohannesBergerFey, GörschwinGörschwinFey2025-10-292025-10-292025-0928th Forum on Specification and Design Language, FDL 2025979-8-3315-9380-3979-8-3315-9379-7https://hdl.handle.net/11420/58341Hardware design weaknesses, when overlooked, can lead to security vulnerabilities. Their cost of fixing is higher the later they are found in the development life cycle. The challenges of detecting these issues in the early stages of hardware design, compared to software design, can be attributed to limited research or poorly defined design guidelines. Using the existing hardware design weakness classification by the MITRE Corporation, we evaluated how Information Flow Tracking (IFT) can be utilized to identify security weaknesses in hardware designs. First, we provide a classification of design weaknesses tailored to detection using IFT. Second, we present a case study to identify one of such weaknesses using an open-source IFT tool. Additionally, we discuss the challenges of using IFT to detect information-flow-based hardware design weaknesses.enCommon Weakness EnumerationHardware DesignHardware SecurityInformation Flow TrackingComputer Science, Information and General Works::004: Computer SciencesConference Paper10.1109/FDL68117.2025.11165404Conference Paper