CVE-2017-5698 — Intel Active Management Technology, Intel Standard Manageability, and Intel Smal

Intel Active Management Technology, Intel Standard Manageability, and Intel Small Business Technology firmware versions 11.0.25.3001 and 11.0.26.3000 anti-rollback will not prevent upgrading to firmware version 11.6.x.1xxx which is vulnerable to CVE-2017-5689 and can be performed

01What is this vulnerability?

Intel Active Management Technology, Intel Standard Manageability, and Intel Small Business Technology firmware versions 11.0.25.3001 and 11.0.26.3000 anti-rollback will not prevent upgrading to firmware version 11.6.x.1xxx which is vulnerable to CVE-2017-5689 and can be performed by a local user with administrative privileges.

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2017-09-05T19:29:00.217
• Last modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

09References

• security-center.intel.com — https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00082&languagei…
• security-center.intel.com — https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00082&languagei…