CVE-2021-38979: IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager 3.0, 3.0.1, 4.0, and 4.1 uses a one-way cryptographic hash against an input that should not be reversible, such as a password, but the software does not also use a salt as part of the input. IBM X-Force ID: 212785.

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.