CVE-2025-56301

An issue was discovered in Chipsalliance Rocket-Chip commit f517abbf41abb65cea37421d3559f9739efd00a9 (2025-01-29) allowing attackers to corrupt exception handling and privilege state transitions via a flawed interaction between exception handling and MRET return mechanisms in the CSR logic when an exception is triggered during MRET execution. The Control and Status Register (CSR) logic has a flawed interaction between exception handling and exception return (MRET) mechanisms which can cause faulty trap behavior. When the MRET instruction is executed in machine mode without being in an exception state, an Instruction Access Fault may be triggered. This results in both the exception handling logic and the exception return logic activating simultaneously, leading to conflicting updates to the control and status registers.
Configurations

No configuration.

History

01 Oct 2025, 20:18

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CWE CWE-1281
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5

30 Sep 2025, 15:15

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-09-30 15:15

Updated : 2025-10-02 19:12


NVD link : CVE-2025-56301

Mitre link : CVE-2025-56301

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-56301


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Products Affected

No product.

CWE
CWE-1281

Sequence of Processor Instructions Leads to Unexpected Behavior