diff --git a/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh b/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh
index f9a70f6..a4d5ecd 100755
--- a/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh
+++ b/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh
@@ -4099,8 +4099,9 @@ check_CVE_2018_3639_linux()
 			if [ "$kernel_ssbd_enabled" = 1 ]; then
 				_info_nol "* SSB mitigation currently active for selected processes: "
 				# silence grep's stderr here to avoid ENOENT errors from processes that have exited since the shell's expansion of the *
-				mitigated_processes=$(grep -El 'Speculation.?Store.?Bypass:[[:space:]]+thread (force )?mitigated' /proc/*/status 2>/dev/null \
-					| sed s/status/exe/ | xargs -r -n1 readlink -f | xargs -r -n1 basename | sort -u | tr "\n" " " | sed 's/ $//')
+				mitigated_processes=$(find /proc -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type f -name status -print0 2>/dev/null \
+					| xargs -r0 grep -El 'Speculation.?Store.?Bypass:[[:space:]]+thread (force )?mitigated' 2>/dev/null \
+					| sed s/status/exe/ | xargs -r -n1 readlink -f 2>/dev/null | xargs -r -n1 basename | sort -u | tr "\n" " " | sed 's/ $//')
 				if [ -n "$mitigated_processes" ]; then
 					pstatus green YES "$mitigated_processes"
 				else