CVE-2019-4688: IBM Guardium Data Encryption

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption (GDE) 3.0.0.2 does not set the secure attribute on authorization tokens or session cookies. Attackers may be able to get the cookie values by sending a http:// link to a user or by planting this link in a site the user goes to. The cookie will be sent to the insecure link and the attacker can then obtain the cookie value by snooping the traffic. IBM X-Force ID: 171825.

Affected products

• IBM Guardium Data Encryption: before 4.0.0.3 (fixed in 4.0.0.3)
• IBM Guardium For Cloud Key Management: before 1.7.0 (fixed in 1.7.0)

Published 2020-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.