High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 7, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-20474

Description

IBM Guardium Data Encryption (GDE) 3.0.0.2 and 4.0.0.4 does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.

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Affected products

IBM/Guardium Data Encryptionllm-fuzzy
Range: 3.0.0.2, 4.0.0.4
IBM/Security Guardium Data Encryptioncpe-rescue
Range: 3.0.0.2

Patches

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References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6469407nvdPatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196945nvdVDB EntryVendor Advisory

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