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Vulnerability · CVE-2017-5689

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

Published May 2, 2017 · catalog updated Jun 16, 2026 · Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), Small Business Technology (SBT), and Standard Manageability

Patch now

CVE-2017-5689 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog, due Jul 28, 2022. Confirm Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), Small Business Technology (SBT), and Standard Manageability against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Severity
Critical9.8
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
92.19%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
cpe hpe/proliant ml10 gen9 server firmware · cpe siemens/simatic ipc627c firmware · cpe siemens/simatic ipc627d firmware · cpe siemens/simatic ipc647c firmware · cpe siemens/simatic ipc647d firmware · cpe siemens/simatic ipc677c firmware

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).

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • cpe hpe/proliant ml10 gen9 server firmware5.0
  • cpe siemens/simatic ipc627c firmwareversion unspecified
  • cpe siemens/simatic ipc627d firmwareversion unspecified
  • cpe siemens/simatic ipc647c firmwareversion unspecified
  • cpe siemens/simatic ipc647d firmwareversion unspecified
  • cpe siemens/simatic ipc677c firmwareversion unspecified
  • cpe siemens/simatic ipc677d firmwareversion unspecified
  • cpe siemens/simatic ipc827c firmwareversion unspecified
  • cpe siemens/simatic ipc827d firmwareversion unspecified
  • cpe siemens/simatic ipc847c firmwareversion unspecified
  • cpe siemens/simatic ipc847d firmwareversion unspecified
  • cpe siemens/simatic itp1000 firmwareversion unspecified
  • vendor Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), Small Business Technology (SBT), and Standard Manageabilityversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2017-5689

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2017-5689 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog, due Jul 28, 2022. Confirm Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), Small Business Technology (SBT), and Standard Manageability against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with hpe/proliant ml10 gen9 server firmware 5.0. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

What should an analyst verify?

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management. EPSS 92.19%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. A public exploit reference is linked in Sources. That is not the same as confirmed exploitation. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. May 2, 2017 · Catalog

    Detected

    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 Mana

  2. Jan 28, 2022 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply updates per vendor instructions.

  3. Jul 28, 2022 · CISA KEV

    Remediation due

    Apply updates per vendor instructions.

  4. Jun 16, 2026 · Catalog

    Updated

    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 Mana

Sources

  • CISA KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2017-5689

    Intel products contain a vulnerability which can allow attackers to perform privilege escalation.

    cisa.gov
  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2017-5689

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2017-5689

    30-day exploitation probability 92.2%

    first.org
  • Exploit DatabasePublic exploit reference43385

    Public archive entry. The exploit body is not stored here.

    exploit-db.com
  • Metasploit ModulesPublic exploit moduleauxiliary_scanner/http/intel_amt_digest_bypass

    Public module reference (normal). Module source is not copied into this catalog.

    rapid7.com
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2017-5689

    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 netwo

    nvd.nist.gov
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2017-5689

    Intel products contain a vulnerability which can allow attackers to perform privilege escalation.

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 17, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.