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CVE-2017-5689

9.8, critical Known exploited

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

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CVSS
9.8, critical critical CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
92% higher than 99.8% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
2 May 20179 years ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 28 Jan 2022. US federal agencies had to remediate by 28 Jul 2022, a deadline that has passed.

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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).

Details

Vendor
Intel
Product
Intel Active Mangement Technology, Intel Small Business Technology, Intel Standard Manageability
Weakness
CWE-269 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
secure@intel.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References 12

Exploit code 1

Patches and fixes 2

Advisories 7

Other references 2

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 18 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.