name: Spectre And Meltdown Vulnerabilities
id: 6d3306f6-bb2b-4219-8609-8efad64032f2
version: 1
date: '2018-01-08'
author: David Dorsey, Splunk
type: batch
description: Assess and mitigate your systems' vulnerability to Spectre and Meltdown
  exploitation with the searches in this Analytic Story.
narrative: Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern CPUs that
  allow unintended access to data in memory. This Analytic Story will help you identify
  the systems can be patched for these vulnerabilities, as well as those that still
  need to be patched.
references:
- https://meltdownattack.com/
tags:
  analytic_story: Spectre And Meltdown Vulnerabilities
  category:
  - Vulnerability
  product:
  - Splunk Enterprise
  - Splunk Enterprise Security
  - Splunk Cloud
  usecase: Security Monitoring
