IBM Business Process Manager 7.5, 8.0, and 8.5 is vulnerable to privilege escalation by not properly distinguishing internal group…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• Gain Privileges

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)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2017-1539](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2017-1539.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2017-1539)

Record last updated 16 Sept 2024, 17:18 UTC.