CVE-2022-29901

Arbitrary Memory Disclosure through CPU Side-Channel Attacks (Retbleed)

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 12, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:40 AM UTC
255 products affected across 5 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraXen

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 5%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

All versions
intel-core-i3-6100 (same device)
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intel-core-i3-6100e (same device)
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intel-core-i3-6100h (same device)
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intel-core-i3-6100t (same device)
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intel-core-i3-6100te (same device)
All versions
intel-core-i3-6100u (same device)
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intel-core-i3-6102e (same device)
All versions
intel-core-i3-6110u (same device)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-200CWE-668

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