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A vulnerability has been found in riscv-boom SonicBOOM up to 2.2.3 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component L1 Data Cache Handler. The manipulation leads to observable timing discrepancy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

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

BOOM: The Berkeley Out-of-Order RISC-V Processor commit d77c2c3 was discovered to allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis.

An issue was discovered in SonicBOOM riscv-boom 3.0.0. For LR, it does not avoid acquiring a reservation in the case where a load translates successfully but still generates an exception.