The Intel Management Engine on the remote host has Active Management Technology (AMT) enabled and is running Intel manageability firmware version 6.x prior to 6.2.61.3535, 7.x prior to 7.1.91.3272, 8.x prior to 8.1.71.3608, 9.0.x or 9.1.x prior to 9.1.41.3024, 9.5.x prior to 9.5.61.3012, 10.0.x prior to 10.0.55.3000, 11.0.18.x prior to 11.0.18.3003, 11.0.22.x prior to 11.0.22.3001, 11.0.x prior to 11.0.25.3001, 11.6.10.x prior to 11.6.10.3197, 11.6.12.x prior to 11.6.12.3202, or else 11.5.x or 11.6.x prior to 11.6.27.3264. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability due to insecure read and write operations. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary code.

Note that the vulnerability is only exploitable remotely if either Active Management Technology (AMT), Intel Standard Manageability (ISM), or Small Business Technology (SBT) is enabled. However, a local attacker can still exploit the vulnerability even if these components are disabled by simply re-enabling the components.

Also, note that due to the low-level implementation of Intel ME, Nessus may not be able to identify its version on the remote host at this time.

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Intel Management Engine Insecure Read / Write Operations RCE (INTEL-SA-00075)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 97997

Version 1.196