CVE-2022-29901

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

12/07/2022

Last modified:

04/02/2024

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

6.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 1.90 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

1.90

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6500u_firmware:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:intel:core_i7-6500u:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6510u_firmware:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:intel:core_i7-6510u:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6560u_firmware:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:intel:core_i7-6560u:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6567u_firmware:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:intel:core_i7-6567u:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6600u_firmware:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:intel:core_i7-6600u:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6650u_firmware:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:intel:core_i7-6650u:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6660u_firmware:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:intel:core_i7-6660u:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6700_firmware:-:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6500u_firmware:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:intel:core_i7-6500u:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6510u_firmware:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:intel:core_i7-6510u:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6560u_firmware:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:intel:core_i7-6560u:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6567u_firmware:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:intel:core_i7-6567u:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6600u_firmware:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:intel:core_i7-6600u:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6650u_firmware:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:intel:core_i7-6650u:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6660u_firmware:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:intel:core_i7-6660u:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-6700_firmware:-:::::::*

CVE-2022-29901

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools