CVE-2019-4697: IBM Guardium Data Encryption

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.5% 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 an authenticated user. IBM X-Force ID: 171938.

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.