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CVE-2017-5689

Q: Is CVE-2017-5689 actively exploited?

Yes. CVE-2017-5689 is on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, meaning it has been confirmed as actively exploited in the wild. CISA requires federal agencies to patch by 2022-07-28.

Q: What is the CVSS score for CVE-2017-5689?

CVE-2017-5689 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL severity), with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Exploitation confirmed. First attested on 2022-01-28 by CISA-ADP, CISA KEV, GCVE · kevintel.

Published2017-05-02
WeaknessCWE-269

Am I affected?

With a domain, we read the version its public headers and pages expose. A distribution build can carry the fix under an older number.

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).

Timeline

dates in UTC

2017-05-0214:59CVE publishedNVD
2022-01-28Listed as exploited by GCVEGCVE
2022-01-28Exploitation first reportedCISA KEV
2022-01-28Added to the CISA KEV catalogCISA KEV
2025-02-0713:43SSVC exploitation set to activeCISA-ADP
2026-10-2319:23First public proof of conceptPoC-in-GitHub
2026-10-2319:23EPSS crossed 10 %FIRST EPSS

Observed activity

isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTC

Indicators tagged with this CVE, per day0 indicators over 7 days

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Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2017-5689?format=txt
CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2017-5689?format=csv
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Versions per branch

NVD

Intel active management technology firmware

Branch	Affected	Fixed in	Source
6.0	= 6.0	no fix published	NVD
6.1	= 6.1	no fix published	NVD
6.2	= 6.2	no fix published	NVD
7.0	= 7.0	no fix published	NVD
7.1	= 7.1	no fix published	NVD
8.0	= 8.0	no fix published	NVD
8.1	= 8.1	no fix published	NVD
9.0	= 9.0	no fix published	NVD
9.1	= 9.1	no fix published	NVD
9.5	= 9.5	no fix published	NVD
10.0	= 10.0	no fix published	NVD
11.0	= 11.0	no fix published	NVD

Siemens simatic pcs 7 ipc427e firmwareversion to verify

Branch	Affected	Fixed in	Source
21.1	< 21.01.04	21.01.04	NVD
—	all versions	no fix published	NVD

Hpe proliant ml10 gen9 server firmwareversion to verify

Branch	Affected	Fixed in	Source
5.0	= 5.0	no fix published	NVD

33 more products in the sources.

as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.

Distribution builds and vendor advisories

Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.

version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.

Vendor advisories

ICSA-17-180-01A CISA1 known affected
ICSA-17-180-01A_Siemens SIMATIC Industrial PCs, SINUMERIK Panel Control Unit, and SIMOTION P320 (Update A)
SINUMERIK Panel Control Unit (PCU): (Intel Core i5 Intel Core i7 and Intel XEON)

Full record on NVD

Fix

CISA’s required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.due 2022-07-28
Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-17-180-01A · 3 productsSiemens has provided firmware updates for the affected industrial PCs to address this vulnerability. These updates can be found on their web site at the following location:

Advisories and patches

www.oracle.comPatch
security-center.intel.comPatch · Vendor Advisory

Detection

read 2026-10-23 19:23 UTC

Nuclei template: none so far
Exploit-DB: no entry
Proof-of-concept repositories: 5 repositories, unverifiedCerberusSecurity/CVE-2017-5689Bijaye/intel_amt_bypassMlSebrell/amthoneypotembedi/amt_auth_bypass_pocTheWay-hue/CVE-2017-5689-Checker

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Date Added: 2022-01-28
Patch Due Date: 2022-07-28
Ransomware Use: Unknown
Required Action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Sources

CISA KEVKEV entry2022-01-28
GCVEexploitation2022-01-28
CISA-ADPSSVC decisionactive2025-02-07
OpenCVESSVC decisionactive—
CISA-ADPCVSS 3.19.82025-02-07
NVDCVSS 3.19.8read 2026-10-23
NVDCVSS 2.010read 2026-10-23
CISA-ADPweakness (CWE)CWE-2692025-02-07
FIRST EPSSEPSS score92.2 %read 2026-10-23
PoC-in-GitHubproof of concept5read 2026-10-23

Technical details

CVSS v3 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published: 2017-05-02
Last Modified: 2026-06-17
NVD status: Analyzed

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-5689?

Is CVE-2017-5689 actively exploited?

Yes. CVE-2017-5689 is on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, meaning it has been confirmed as actively exploited in the wild. CISA requires federal agencies to patch by 2022-07-28.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2017-5689?

CVE-2017-5689 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL severity), with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

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