CVE-2017-1539: IBM Business Process Manager

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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; …

Published 2017-09-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.