topic AMT vulnerability in Intel vPro® Platform

AMT vulnerability

SBohl1 — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:25:39 GMT

I am looking to find some concrete information on what steps will need to be taken in order to mitigate the AMT vulnerability (CVE-2017-5689) in our environment and would appreciate any help/information that can be provided.

We have never provisioned Intel AMT. Does this mean we are not vulnerable, or does the existence of AMT in the BIOS automatically make a device vulnerable to exploit?
I do see the UNS and LMS services running on well over a hundred devices in our environment. Does any potential exploit target these services? Will simply disabling these services mitigate any vulnerability?
We have many devices that I am sure have AMT that appear not to have these services even installed. Are they vulnerable?

My goal is to not have to update the BIOS on 1500 or more systems, especially since we have never made use of AMT. If I can simply disable services on devices by script within Windows, and ignore devices that don't have the services, that is the ideal outcome.

Thank you for any help provided.

Sean

Re: AMT vulnerability

SBohl1 — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:08:22 GMT

As an update to this request for information, I found that even after running the mitigation tool against a device and taking the following three steps, unprovision (which it reported that it was never provisioned, as it should), disable client remote capabilities, and disable LMS services, and then re-running the discovery the device is still being reported as vulnerable. Is the mitigation tool not intelligent enough to determine that mitigation steps have been taken, or is there still a problem?

Again, thank you for any assistance.

Sean

Re: AMT vulnerability

idata — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:42:28 GMT

Hi Sean,

My understanding from your post is that your goal is to not have to update the BIOS on 1500+ systems and that you have run the detection and mitigation tool for Intel SA-00075. While performing the mitigation steps will help, your systems will still be considered vulnerable (even when re-running the tool against mitigated systems) until the firmware update for SA-00075 has been applied.

I could not tell from your post if you use a central management tool in your environment, like SCCM. There are methods for performing queries of your environment to determine systems that are vulnerable and then create a task to update the firmware.

Referencing one post that might be helpful:

https://communities.intel.com/thread/120105 https://communities.intel.com/thread/120105

Please let me know if there is anything further I can assist with.

Regards,

Michael A

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/26755

Re: AMT vulnerability

idata — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:47:04 GMT

Hi Sean,

Checking to see if you had further questions.

Regards,

Michael