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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2022-29901
HistoryJul 12, 2022 - 7:15 p.m.

Design/Logic Flaw

2022-07-1219:15:00
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7.1 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

31.2%

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.

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