CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.6. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.
Public Exploit Signal
A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.
Detected Signals
code execution
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CVE
CVE-2022-29901
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.6
EPSS
4.83%
Original NVD 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.
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