{"cve":"CVE-2022-29901","nvd":{"published":"2022-07-12T19:15:08.437","modified":"2026-06-17T04:40:55.790","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N","score":6.5},"cwes":["CWE-668","CWE-200"],"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"],"products":["debian:debian_linux","fedoraproject:fedora","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","intel:core_i3-6102e_firmware","intel:core_i3-6110u_firmware","intel:core_i3-6120_firmware","intel:core_i3-6120t_firmware","intel:core_i3-6167u_firmware","intel:core_i3-6300_firmware","intel:core_i3-6300t_firmware","intel:core_i3-6320_firmware","intel:core_i3-6320t_firmware","intel:core_i3-8000_firmware","intel:core_i3-8000t_firmware","intel:core_i3-8020_firmware","intel:core_i3-8100_firmware","intel:core_i3-8100h_firmware","intel:core_i3-8100t_firmware","intel:core_i3-8109u_firmware","intel:core_i3-8120_firmware","intel:core_i3-8130u_firmware","intel:core_i3-8145u_firmware","intel:core_i3-8300_firmware","intel:core_i3-8300t_firmware","intel:core_i3-8350k_firmware","intel:core_i5-6200u_firmware","intel:core_i5-6210u_firmware","intel:core_i5-6260u_firmware","intel:core_i5-6267u_firmware","intel:core_i5-6287u_firmware","intel:core_i5-6300hq_firmware","intel:core_i5-6300u_firmware","intel:core_i5-6310u_firmware","intel:core_i5-6350hq_firmware","intel:core_i5-6360u_firmware","intel:core_i5-6400_firmware","intel:core_i5-6400t_firmware","intel:core_i5-6440eq_firmware","intel:core_i5-6440hq_firmware","intel:core_i5-6442eq_firmware","intel:core_i5-6500_firmware","intel:core_i5-6500t_firmware","intel:core_i5-6500te_firmware","intel:core_i5-6600_firmware","intel:core_i5-6600k_firmware"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:33:44.859608815+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2022-29901","score":0.05011,"percentile":0.92245,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}