Intel Manageability Engine up to 11.20 Active Management Technology memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Intel Manageability Engine up to 11.20. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Active Management Technology. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-5711. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Intel Manageability Engine up to 11.20 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Active Management Technology. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple buffer overflows in Active Management Technology (AMT) in Intel Manageability Engine Firmware 8.x/9.x/10.x/11.0/11.5/11.6/11.7/11.10/11.20 allow attacker with local access to the system to execute arbitrary code with AMT execution privilege.

The bug was discovered 11/20/2017. The weakness was shared 11/20/2017 as INTEL-SA-00086 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at security-center.intel.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-5711 since 02/01/2017. An attack has to be approached locally. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The advisory points out:

In response to issues identified by external researchers, Intel has performed an in-depth comprehensive security review of our Intel® Management Engine (ME), Intel® Server Platform Services (SPS), and Intel® Trusted Execution Engine (TXE) with the objective of enhancing firmware resilience. As a result, Intel has identified security vulnerabilities that could potentially place impacted platforms at risk.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 38693 (Intel Active Management Technology Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 101918†). wired.com is providing further details. The entries VDB-109767, VDB-109768, VDB-109770 and VDB-109771 are related to this item. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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OpenVAS ID: 860137
OpenVAS Name: Intel Active Management Technology Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Vendor: intel.com

Advisory: INTEL-SA-00086
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-5711 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-5711
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-109769
SecurityFocus: 101918 - Intel Manageability Engine CVE-2017-5711 Multiple Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1039852

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Entryinfo

Created: 11/21/2017 15:28
Updated: 01/24/2021 22:12
Changes: 11/21/2017 15:28 (82), 12/09/2019 10:19 (4), 01/24/2021 22:12 (2)
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Cache ID: 216:E2A:103

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