IBM Business Automation Workflow 18.0, 19.0, and 20.0 and IBM Business Process Manager 8.5 and 8.6 could allow an authenticated user to obt…

published 2021-06-28 5y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-16225

cvss: 3.1; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.9%; EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits: 0; none known

IBM Business Automation Workflow 18.0, 19.0, and 20.0 and IBM Business Process Manager 8.5 and 8.6 could allow an authenticated user to obtain sensitive information about another user under nondefault configurations. IBM X-Force ID: 201779.

Patch / fix

links 2

ibm.com/support/pages/node/6465127 advisory
ibm.com/support/pages/node/6467055 advisory

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Exploit prediction

0.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	3.1	CVSS:3.0/C:L/UI:N/S:U/AV:N/PR:L/I:N/AC:H/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
NVD	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CNA	3.0	3.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	3.5	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

IBM Business Process Manager
IBM Business Automation Workflow
IBM Cloud Pak for Automation

References

ibm.com /support/pages/node/6465127
patch, vendor-advisory
ibm.com /support/pages/node/6467055
patch, vendor-advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/201779
vdb-entry, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2021-29751
NVD CVE-2021-29751

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