CVE-2021-38893: IBM Business Automation Workflow

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Business Process Manager 8.5 and 8.6 and IBM Business Automation Workflow 18.0, 19.0, 20.0 and 21.0 are vulnerable to stored 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: 209512.

Affected products

• IBM Business Automation Workflow: version 18.0.0.0 only; version 19.0.0.0 only; version 20.0.0.0 only; version 21.0.0.0 only
• IBM Business Process Manager: version 8.5.0.0 only; version 8.5.5.0 only; version 8.5.7.0 only; version 8.6.0.0 only
• IBM Workflow Process Service: version 21.0.2 only

Published 2021-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.