CVE-2017-5996: BeyondTrust Remote Support

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• BeyondTrust Remote Support: version 15.2.1 only; version 15.2.2 only; version 16.1.1 only; version 16.1.2 only; version 16.1.3 only; version 16.1.4 only; …

Published 2017-10-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.