VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-1539

high
Published 2017-09-26 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.5
VIR risk
8.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@us.ibm.com — https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/130807

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@us.ibm.com — http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22007451

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.0.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.0.1
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.1.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.1.1
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.1.2
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.0.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.1.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.1.1
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.1.2
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.1.3
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.0.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.0.1
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.0.2
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.5.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.6.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.6.1
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.6.2
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.7.0

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.