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CVE-2017-5689

Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), Small Business Technology (SBT), and Standard Manageability Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

  • Critical 9.8
  • Exploited: added to CISA KEV 28 Jan 2022

Description

An unprivileged network attacker could gain system privileges to provisioned Intel manageability SKUs: Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) and Intel Standard Manageability (ISM). An unprivileged local attacker could provision manageability features gaining unprivileged network or local system privileges on Intel manageability SKUs: Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), Intel Standard Manageability (ISM), and Intel Small Business Technology (SBT).

Key facts

Published
2 May 2017
Last changed
21 Oct 2025
Assigned by
intel
KEV added
28 Jan 2022
KEV fix due
28 Jul 2022
EPSS
92.189% likely to be exploited in the next 30 days, higher than 99.825% of CVEs (scores for 15 Nov 2026)
SSVC (CISA)
Exploitation: active; Automatable: yes; Technical impact: total

Severity scores

Each score is shown as its source gave it. They are not averaged or merged.

  • 9.8CVSS 3.1, Criticalfrom CISA (ADP container)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What to do

  • Apply updates per vendor instructions.CISA KEV required action

Historical context and remediation

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No separately sourced impact summary is available on this page yet. Consult the description, version data and dated exploitation evidence.

Version statuses below come from the CNA. An “unaffected” version is not necessarily a currently supported release or proof of a patch date. EPSS is a dated risk estimate, not a count of historical attacks.

Read the original CVE record.

Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Intel CorporationIntel Active Mangement Technology, Intel Small Business Technology, Intel Standard Manageability
  • fixed in versions 6.2.61.3535, 7.1.91.3272, 8.1.71.3608, 9.1.41.3024, 10.0.55.3000, 11.0.25.3001, and 11.6.27.3264 and later (affected)

Timeline

  1. 2 May 2017 Published
  2. 28 Jan 2022 CVE-2017-5689 added to CISA KEV
  3. 28 Jan 2022 Added to the CISA KEV catalogue

Weakness

References