CVE-2017-5996

high

Published 2017-10-26 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

The agent in Bomgar Remote Support 15.2.x before 15.2.3, 16.1.x before 16.1.5, and 16.2.x before 16.2.4 allows DLL hijacking because of weak %SYSTEMDRIVE%\ProgramData permissions.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
beyondtrust	remote_support	`15.2.1`
beyondtrust	remote_support	`15.2.2`
beyondtrust	remote_support	`16.1.1`
beyondtrust	remote_support	`16.1.2`
beyondtrust	remote_support	`16.1.3`
beyondtrust	remote_support	`16.1.4`
beyondtrust	remote_support	`16.2.1`
beyondtrust	remote_support	`16.2.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-426

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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