Monday, May 8, 2017

Exploitable Details of Intel's 'Apocalyptic' AMT Firmware Vulnerability Disclosed

The Intel AMT firmware vulnerability is much more serious than previously reported.  From Security Week:

Exploitable Details of Intel's 'Apocalyptic' AMT Firmware Vulnerability Disclosed

Details of the Intel AMT firmware vulnerability announced on May 1, 2017 are now public knowledge; and the suggestion that 'this is somewhere between nightmarish and apocalyptic' has been proven correct.

One day after Intel's alert, Embedi (the firm that discovered the vulnerability back in February this year) published a brief note. One particular sentence stood out to researchers at Tenable: "With 100 percent certainty it is not an RCE but rather a logical vulnerability."

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