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DET-06: Enclave launched with --debug-mode

A debug enclave reports all-zero PCRs and exposes its console, which defeats attestation.

Property Value
Severity critical
Platform AWS Nitro Enclaves
Group tee
Log source nitro-cli · host signal
Related check ENCLAVE-01: Enclave debug mode is disabled

Fires when

enclave launched with --debug-mode (nitro-cli run-enclave, debug=true)

How it runs

untrust detect --platform nitro reads CloudTrail in the region you pass with --region, over the last --since minutes (default 60).

This rule needs:

  • untrust detect --host-check: Also run nitro-cli on the host through SSM (DET-06, DET-11).

A match is a detection event with this rule's ID. Upload it to the console to alert on it; see Runtime detections.