CVE-2019-4693: IBM Guardium Data Encryption

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption (GDE) 3.0.0.2 stores user credentials in plain in clear text which can be read by a local privileged user. IBM X-Force ID: 171831.

Affected products

• IBM Guardium Data Encryption: version 3.0.0.2 only
• IBM Guardium For Cloud Key Management: before 1.7.0 (fixed in 1.7.0)

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