Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-1104

CriticalPublic PoC

Published: 13 August 2021

Published
13 August 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0057 68.9th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-1104 is a critical-severity Use of Uninitialized Resource (CWE-908) vulnerability in Risc-V Instruction Set Manual. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 31.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual contains a documented ambiguity for the Machine Trap Vector Base Address (MTVEC) register that may lead to a vulnerability due to the initial state of the register not being defined, potentially leading to information disclosure,…

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data tampering and denial of service.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

risc-v
instruction set manual
all versions

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References