CVE-2022-29901
moderate-risk
Published 2022-07-12
Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions.
Do I need to act?
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0.07% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.6/10
Medium
LOCAL
/ HIGH complexity
Affected Products (20)
Core I7-6510U Firmware
Affected Vendors
References (28)
and 8 more references
47
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
15/34 · Moderate
Exploitability
0/34 · Minimal
Exposure
32/34 · Critical