What is CVE-2022-29901?

CVE-2022-29901 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel Core I3-6100, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.6/10. Published 2022-07-12.

How severe is CVE-2022-29901?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.6 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-29901 known to be exploited?

3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Information disclosure in Intel Core I3-6100

CVE-2022-29901

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.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2022-07-12 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.050 (92.2th percentile), scored 2026-11-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.050 · newest: 0.050 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

comsec.ethz.ch/retbleed
www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00702.html
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/2 (mailing-list)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/4 (mailing-list)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/12/5 (mailing-list)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/13/1 (mailing-list)
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/… (vendor-advisory)
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/… (vendor-advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5207 (vendor-advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00011.html (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-29901?: CVE-2022-29901 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel Core I3-6100, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.6/10. Published 2022-07-12.
How severe is CVE-2022-29901?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.6 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-29901 known to be exploited?: 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.