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

> CVE-2017-5689: Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), Small Business Technology (SBT), and Standard Manageability Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. CVSS 9.8 (CVSS 3.1), in CISA KEV.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2017-5689
Last updated: 2025-10-21T23:55:41Z

- Published: 2017-05-02 14:00 UTC · Updated: 2025-10-21 23:55 UTC · Assigner: intel
- CVSS: 9.8 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Critical · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 92.2%, 100th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: yes, added 2022-01-28, federal due date 2022-07-28, ransomware use: Unknown

## 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).

## CISA required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

## Affected vendors and products

- Intel Corporation: Intel Active Mangement Technology, Intel Small Business Technology, Intel Standard Manageability

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5689)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5689)
- [https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-874235.pdf](https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-874235.pdf)
- [https://downloadmirror.intel.com/26754/eng/INTEL-SA-00075%20Mitigation%20Guide-Rev%201.1.pdf](https://downloadmirror.intel.com/26754/eng/INTEL-SA-00075%20Mitigation%20Guide-Rev%201.1.pdf)
- [https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en\_US&docId=emr\_na-hpesbhf03754en\_us](https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03754en_us)
- [https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00075&languageid=en-fr](https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00075&languageid=en-fr)
- [https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20170509-0001/](https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20170509-0001/)
- [https://www.embedi.com/files/white-papers/Silent-Bob-is-Silent.pdf](https://www.embedi.com/files/white-papers/Silent-Bob-is-Silent.pdf)
- [https://www.embedi.com/news/mythbusters-cve-2017-5689](https://www.embedi.com/news/mythbusters-cve-2017-5689)
- [https://www.tenable.com/blog/rediscovering-the-intel-amt-vulnerability](https://www.tenable.com/blog/rediscovering-the-intel-amt-vulnerability)
- [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html)
- [http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98269](http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98269)
- [http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038385](http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038385)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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