CVE-2017-5689

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: May 2, 2017 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:21 AM UTC
74 products affected across 3 vendorsActive Management Technology FirmwareSIMATIC IPC477E FirmwareSIMATIC ITP1000 Firmware

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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploitation
CISA KEV
Exploit prediction
EPSS 92%
SSVC
Active

Actively Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog

EPSS Score92.2%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) estimates a 92.2% chance this CVE is exploited in the wild within the next 30 days — higher than 100% of all CVEs. It complements CVSS: a high EPSS on a mid-severity CVE can still be urgent.

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

Required Action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Ransomware Use
Unknown
Added to KEV
Jan 28, 2022
Remediation Due
Jul 28, 2022
1552 days overdue

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).

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

hpe-proliant-ml10-gen9-server (same device)
v < 6.2.61.3535
Affected range stops below 6.2.61.3535, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
siemens-simatic-field-pg-m3 (same device)
v < 18.01.06
Affected range stops below 18.01.06, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
siemens-simatic-field-pg-m4 (same device)
v < 22.01.03
Affected range stops below 22.01.03, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
siemens-simatic-field-pg-m5 (same device)
All versions
siemens-simatic-ipc427d (same device)
v < 21.01.05
Affected range stops below 21.01.05, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
siemens-simatic-ipc427e (same device)
All versions
siemens-simatic-ipc477d (same device)
v < 21.01.05
Affected range stops below 21.01.05, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
siemens-simatic-ipc477e (same device)
v < 7.1.91.3272
Affected range stops below 7.1.91.3272, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
siemens-simatic-ipc547d (same device)

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCActiveAutomatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

9.8CRITICALCISA-ADP
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-269

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