Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) Multiple Vulnerabilities (INTEL-SA-00709)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 164085

Synopsis

The management engine on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The Intel Management Engine on the remote host has Active Management Technology (AMT) enabled, and, according to its self-reported version, is a version containing multiple vulnerabilities, including the following:

- Insufficiently protected credentials for Intel(R) AMT and Intel(R) Standard Manageability may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure and escalation of privilege via network access. (CVE-2022-30601)

- Insufficiently protected credentials for Intel(R) AMT and Intel(R) Standard Manageability may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-30944)

- Improper access control in firmware for Intel(R) AMT and Intel(R) Standard Manageability may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via physical access.(CVE-2022-28697)


Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Contact your system OEM for updated firmware per the vendor advisory.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d5e4e51d

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 164085

File Name: wmi_INTEL-SA-00709.nbin

Version: 1.128

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 8/12/2022

Updated: 11/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-30601

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/h:intel:active_management_technology, cpe:/o:intel:active_management_technology_firmware

Required KB Items: Intel/AMT/Enabled, Intel/AMT/FWVersion

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-28697, CVE-2022-30601, CVE-2022-30944

IAVA: 2022-A-0327