CVE-2026-29642

High

Description

A local attacker who can execute privileged CSR operations (or can induce firmware to do so) performs carefully crafted reads/writes to menvcfg (e.g., csrrs in M-mode). On affected XiangShan versions (commit aecf601e803bfd2371667a3fb60bfcd83c333027, 2024-11-19), these menvcfg accesses can unexpectedly set WPRI (reserved) bits in the status view (xstatus) to 1. RISC-V defines WPRI fields as "writes preserve values, reads ignore values," i.e., they must not be modified by software manipulating other fields, and menvcfg itself contains multiple WPRI fields.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductXiangShan
PublishedApr 20, 2026
First seenApr 20, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-1244CWE-1244

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
XiangShanaecf601e803bfd2371667a3fb60bfcd83c333027—

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