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Spectre V1 has also been demonstrated to access protections provided by the System Management Range Register (SMRR) to access protected System Management Mode (SMM) memory.
https://blog.eclypsium.com/2018/05/17/system-management-mode-speculative-execution-attacks/

Lazy FP

Since cryptographic operations (including those provided by AES-NI features of Intel CPUs) rely on FPU, the Lazy FPU vulnerability can Lazy FP may particularly expose AES keys.:

The FPU state may contain sensitive information such as cryptographic keys. As an example, the Intel AES instruction set (AES-NI) uses FPU registers to store round keys. It is only possible to exploit when the underlying operating system or hypervisor uses lazy FPU switching.

https://blog.cyberus-technology.de/posts/2018-06-06-intel-lazyfp-vulnerability.html