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CVE-2017-1539
IBM Business Process Manager 7.5, 8.0, and 8.5 is vulnerable to privilege escalation by not properly distinguishing internal group…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
IBM Business Process Manager 7.5, 8.0, and 8.5 is vulnerable to privilege escalation by not properly distinguishing internal group memberships from user registry group memberships. By manipulating LDAP group membership an attack might gain privileged access. IBM X-Force ID: 130807.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
IBM · Business Process Manager Advanced
- affected 7.5
- affected 7.5.0.1
- affected 7.5.1
- affected 7.5.1.1
- affected 7.5.1.2
- affected 8.0
- affected 8.0.1
- affected 8.0.1.1
- affected 8.0.1.2
- affected 8.5
- affected 8.5.0.1
- affected 8.5.5
- affected 8.0.1.3
- affected 8.5.6
- affected 8.5.0.2
- affected 8.5.7
- affected 8.5.7.CF201609
- affected 8.5.6.1
- affected 8.5.6.2
- affected 8.5.7.CF201606
- affected 8.5.7.CF201612
- affected 8.5.7.CF201703
- affected 8.5.7.CF201706
References
3
- 100967 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22007451 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/130807 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-10555 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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