Exploited. On CISA's list since 2022-01-28.
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 · Published 2017-05-02
How bad would it be?
9.8 out of 10
CVSS rates it critical: about as damaging as flaws get.
How likely is it to be used?
92%
Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, among the top 1% of all scored flaws (EPSS, 2026-10-29).
Is it already being used?
Yes
CISA has seen it exploited in real attacks. For US government agencies the fix is deadline passed 1555 days ago (2022-07-28).
What CISA says to do
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Intel products contain a vulnerability which can allow attackers to perform privilege escalation.
What the flaw is
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).
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CWE-269 · NVD record: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0. We have not selected a close learning match for this label.
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