CVE-2021-38985: IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager 3.0, 3.0.1, 4.0, and 4.1 receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

Affected products

  • IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager: from 4.1.0, up to and including 4.1.0.1; 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

Published 2021-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.