CVE-2021-38978: IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager 3.0, 3.0.1, 4.0, and 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to properly enable HTTP Strict Transport Security. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information using man in the middle techniques. IBM X-Force ID: 212783.

Affected products

• IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager: version 4.1.0 only; version 4.1.0.1 only; version 4.1.1 only
• IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager: from 3.0, up to and including 3.0.0.4; from 3.0.1, up to and including 3.0.1.5; from 4.0, up to and including 4.0.0.3; version 4.1.0 only; version 4.1.0.1 only; version 4.1.1 only

Published 2021-11-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.