Servers and applications
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.
- Severity
- Medium 6.5
- Published
- 12 Jul 2022
- Last changed
- 17 Jun 2026
- Added to UpHeron
- 1 Nov 2026
- Sources
- NVD
Affected software
| Software | Affected versions |
|---|---|
VMware ESXiServers and applications · cpe:o:vmware:esxi |
All 15 release lines
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