Threats / Intel / CVE-2017-5689
CVE-2017-5689
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Verified 2026-06-22
Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), Small Business (SB vulnerability
Intel Active Management Technology, Small Business Technology, and Standard Manageability contain a privilege escalation vulnerability enabling unauthorized system access.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
A privilege escalation flaw in Intel manageability firmware allows attackers to gain elevated system privileges. The vulnerability has been exploited in the wild and carries high exploitability risk.
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreExploit available
Fully weaponized — public exploit code is cataloged for this vulnerability.We link the existence of the exploit; we do not host or redistribute payloads.
Reported exploitation
2 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-01-28).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.92189 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: Intel, Active Management Technology (AMT), Small Business Technology (SBT), and Standard Manageability. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I identify systems running vulnerable Intel AMT, SBT, or Standard Manageability firmware.
Business
Affected organizations face exposure of systems with default or weak manageability credentials.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I exploit the privilege escalation flaw to elevate my access from user-level to system-level permissions.
Business
Attackers gain administrative control over affected endpoints, bypassing security controls.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I maintain persistent access to compromised systems through the manageability interface.
Business
Organizations lose visibility and control over their infrastructure, enabling data theft or lateral movement.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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