diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 596c539d0..66ca7fa59 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 - Implemented fully correct version of GELU instead of using bad approximatin via Swish.
 - Handle copying from fp32 or fp16 embeddings in embedder mode correctly.
 - Correct defaults for factored embeddings such that shared library use works (move out of config.h/cpp).
+- Cmake builds where the `CPUINFO` is blank.
 
 ### Changed
 - Globally set mkl_set_num_threads(1)
diff --git a/cmake/FindSSE.cmake b/cmake/FindSSE.cmake
index 1d3afdf32..638f42dd0 100644
--- a/cmake/FindSSE.cmake
+++ b/cmake/FindSSE.cmake
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ ELSEIF(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME MATCHES "Darwin")
       set(SSE3_FOUND false CACHE BOOL "SSE3 available on host")
    ENDIF (SSE3_TRUE)
 
-   STRING(REGEX REPLACE "^.*(SSSE3).*$" "\\1" SSE_THERE ${CPUINFO})
+   STRING(REGEX REPLACE "^.*(SSSE3).*$" "\\1" SSE_THERE "${CPUINFO}")
    STRING(COMPARE EQUAL "SSSE3" "${SSE_THERE}" SSSE3_TRUE)
    IF (SSSE3_TRUE)
       set(SSSE3_FOUND true CACHE BOOL "SSSE3 available on host")