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
EPSS: 0.048 (91.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
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.
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secure@intel.com
- secure@intel.com
- secure@intel.com (mailing-list)
- secure@intel.com (mailing-list)
- secure@intel.com (mailing-list)
- secure@intel.com (mailing-list)
- secure@intel.com (vendor-advisory)
- secure@intel.com (vendor-advisory)
- secure@intel.com (vendor-advisory)
- secure@intel.com (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.