CVE-2017-5689 — Oracle
CRITICALCVE-2017-5689 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-01-28) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
An unprivileged network attacker could gain system privileges to provisioned Intel manageability SKUs: Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) and Intel Standard Manageability (ISM).…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-01-28. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2022-07-28.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2017-5689.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2017-5689 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 394,803 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
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).
Affected Products
proliant ml10 gen9 server firmwarehpeactive management technology firmwareintelsimatic field pg m3 firmwaresiemenssimatic field pg m4 firmwaresiemenssimatic field pg m5 firmwaresiemenssimatic ipc427d firmwaresiemensResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Intel Active Management Technology - System Privileges
by nixawk · May 10, 2017
Detection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Remediation status
No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2017-5689 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Close the privilege gap rather than the entry point: audit which accounts, roles and service identities can reach the affected operation, drop the component to the least privilege it actually needs, and review file and directory permissions created by earlier installs — a default left in place is what makes this reachable.
How to detect CVE-2017-5689
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2017-5689 -u https://target- Template
- Intel Active Management - Authentication Bypass
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- An attacker can bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to the Intel Active Management firmware, potentially leading to unauthorized control of the affected system.
- Remediation
- Update the Intel Active Management firmware to version 11.6.55, 11.7.55, 11.11.55, 11.0.25, 8.1.71, or 7.1.91 to mitigate the vulnerability.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (pdteam), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
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