CVE-2016-9693: IBM Business Process Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Business Process Manager 7.5, 8.0, and 8.5 has a file download capability that is vulnerable to a set of attacks. Ultimately, an attacker can cause an unauthenticated victim to download a malicious payload. An existing file type restriction can be bypassed so that the payload might be considered executable and cause damage on the victim's machine. IBM Reference #: 1998655.

Affected products

• IBM Business Process Manager: version 7.5.0.0 only; version 7.5.0.1 only; version 7.5.1.0 only; version 7.5.1.1 only; version 7.5.1.2 only; version 8.0.0.0 only; …
• IBM WebSphere: version 7.2 only; version 7.2.0.1 only; version 7.2.0.2 only; version 7.2.0.3 only; version 7.2.0.4 only; version 7.2.0.5 only

Published 2017-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.