CVE-2022-29901
What it is
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.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited locally on the machine with a low-privilege account. High risk of data exposure.
- Exploit odds
- 5.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- No patch or advisory is linked yet. Look at mitigations or restrict exposure.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 5.0% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 5.6 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: none linked yet, which raises it.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 5.0% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-200 · Information exposure
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- Intel Core i7-6500u Firmware
- Intel Core i7-6510u Firmware
- Intel Core i7-6560u Firmware
- Intel Core i7-6567u Firmware
- Intel Core i7-6600u Firmware
- Intel Core i7-6650u Firmware
- Intel Core i7-6660u Firmware
- Intel Core i7-6700 Firmware
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 5.6
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Is it in your code?
Hand this to your coding agent. It searches your project for the affected products and checks versions. Nothing leaves your machine.
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References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/13/1
- https://comsec.ethz.ch/retbleed
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00034.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D4RW5FCIYFNCQOEFJEUIRW3DGYW7CWBG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M27MB3QFNIJV4EQQSXWARHP3OGX6CR6K/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221007-0007/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5207
- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00702.html
- https://www.secpod.com/blog/retbleed-intel-and-amd-processor-information-disclosure-vulnerability/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/13/1
- https://comsec.ethz.ch/retbleed
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00034.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D4RW5FCIYFNCQOEFJEUIRW3DGYW7CWBG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M27MB3QFNIJV4EQQSXWARHP3OGX6CR6K/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221007-0007/