CVE-2022-34641 — CVA6 commit d315ddd0f1be27c1b3f27eb0b8daf471a952299a and RISCV-Boom commit ad64c

CVA6 commit d315ddd0f1be27c1b3f27eb0b8daf471a952299a and RISCV-Boom commit ad64c5419151e5e886daee7084d8399713b46b4b implements the incorrect exception type when a PMP violation occurs during address translation.

01What is this vulnerability?

CVA6 commit d315ddd0f1be27c1b3f27eb0b8daf471a952299a and RISCV-Boom commit ad64c5419151e5e886daee7084d8399713b46b4b implements the incorrect exception type when a PMP violation occurs during address translation.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-07-18T22:45:51.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T09:15:15.687Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/riscv-boom/riscv-boom/issues/605
• github.com — https://github.com/openhwgroup/cva6/issues/906
• github.com — https://github.com/openhwgroup/cva6/pull/908