CVE-2025-8774: Boom-Core Risvc-Boom

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Boom-Core Risvc-Boom: up to and including 2.2.3

Published 2025-08-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.