CVE-2022-29901

MEDIUM

Intel Core i7 Firmware - Spectre Retpoline Bypass Exposes Sensitive Information

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.6
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 22.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200 CWE-668
Status published
Products (50)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
debian/debian_linux 11.0
fedoraproject/fedora 35
fedoraproject/fedora 36
intel/core_i3-6100_firmware
intel/core_i3-6100e_firmware
intel/core_i3-6100h_firmware
intel/core_i3-6100t_firmware
intel/core_i3-6100te_firmware
intel/core_i3-6100u_firmware
... and 40 more
Published Jul 12, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026