CVE-2021-29872: IBM Cloud Pak For Automation

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Cloud Pak for Automation 21.0.1 and 21.0.2 - Business Automation Studio Component is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject HTTP HOST header, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking. IBM X-Force ID: 206228.

Affected products

• IBM Cloud Pak For Automation: before 21.0.2 (fixed in 21.0.2); version 21.0.2 only; before 21.0.1 (fixed in 21.0.1); version 21.0.1 only

Published 2022-01-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.