CVE-2021-38883: IBM Business Automation Workflow

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Business Automation Workflow 18.0, 19.0, 20,0 and 21.0 and IBM Business Process Manager 8.5 and 8.6 are vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session. IBM X-Force ID: 209165.

Affected products

• IBM Business Automation Workflow: version 18.0.0.0 only; version 18.0.0.1 only; version 18.0.0.2 only; version 19.0.0.0 only; version 19.0.0.1 only; version 19.0.0.2 only; …
• IBM Business Process Manager: version 8.5.0.0 only; version 8.5.0.1 only; version 8.5.0.2 only; version 8.5.5.0 only; version 8.5.6.0 only; version 8.5.7.0 only; …

Published 2021-12-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.