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CVE-2017-5689 — Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), Small Business Technology (SBT), and Standard Manageability Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Critical CVSS 9.8 CISA KEV

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).

Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.8 (3.1)
Published
2017-05-02
CISA KEV
Known exploited
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Affected products

  • hpe / proliant_ml10_gen9_server_firmware / 5.0
  • siemens / simatic_itp1000_firmware
  • siemens / simatic_ipc847d_firmware
  • siemens / simatic_ipc847c_firmware
  • siemens / simatic_ipc827d_firmware
  • siemens / simatic_ipc827c_firmware

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Matched remediation archetype

Privilege escalation and unsafe privilege management

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Check exposure

  • Map service accounts, operating-system identities, roles, capabilities, impersonation, set-user transitions, and administrative helper paths.
  • Determine whether untrusted users or lower-privilege processes can reach the affected transition or modify inputs it trusts.
  • Review file, socket, registry, device, job, container, and cloud-role permissions used before and after privilege changes.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the supported fix and redesign privileged operations as a minimal, authenticated, allowlisted interface.
  • Drop privileges before processing untrusted input, verify the drop succeeds, and remove unnecessary roles, capabilities, and write permissions.
  • Validate ownership and permissions at time of use and add explicit lower-to-higher privilege boundary tests.

Authoritative sources

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