What is CVE-2017-16520?

CVE-2017-16520 is a high-severity vulnerability in Inedo Buildmaster, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-11-11.

How severe is CVE-2017-16520?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Inedo Buildmaster

CVE-2017-16520

Inedo BuildMaster before 5.8.2 does not properly restrict creation of RequireManageAllPrivileges event listeners.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

Published 2017-11-11 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (63.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 63rd percentile — 63.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Inedo Buildmaster

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

inedo.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/BM-3107 (Vendor Advisory)
inedo.com/blog/buildmaster-582-released (Vendor Advisory)
inedo.com/buildmaster/versions (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-16520?: CVE-2017-16520 is a high-severity vulnerability in Inedo Buildmaster, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-11-11.
How severe is CVE-2017-16520?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.