As far as I know, Embedi and not SemiAccurate found and reported the issue. https://www.embedi.com/files/white-papers/Silent-Bob-is-Silent.pdf https://www.embe

As far as I know, Embedi and not SemiAccurate found and reported the issue. https://www.embedi.com/files/white-papers/Silent-Bob-is-Silent.pdf https://www.embedi.com/files/white-papers/Silent-Bob-is-Sile... > An authentication bypass vulnerability, which will be later known as CVE-2017-5689, was originally discovered in mid-February of 2017 while doing side-research on the internals of Intel ME firmware. The first objects of interest were network services and protocols.