CVE-2022-34642 — The component mcontrol

The component mcontrol.action in RISCV ISA Sim commit ac466a21df442c59962589ba296c702631e041b5 contains the incorrect mask which can cause a Denial of Service (DoS).

01What is this vulnerability?

The component mcontrol.action in RISCV ISA Sim commit ac466a21df442c59962589ba296c702631e041b5 contains the incorrect mask which can cause a Denial of Service (DoS).

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

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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: 2022-07-18T22:45:52.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T09:15:15.688Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/riscv-software-src/riscv-isa-sim/issues/1032