CVE-2021-38893IBM Business Process Manager 8.5 and 8.6 and IBM Business Automation Workflow 18.0, 19.0, 20.0 and 21.0 are vulnerable to stored…
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.71%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 46% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
IBM Business Process Manager 8.5 and 8.6 and IBM Business Automation Workflow 18.0, 19.0, 20.0 and 21.0 are vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session. IBM X-Force ID: 209512.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibmCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.0/I:L/PR:L/C:L/S:C/UI:N/AC:L/AV:N/A:N/RC:C/RL:O/E:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.71% · top 46% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
IBM · Cloud Pak for Automation
- affected 21.0.2
IBM · Business Process Manager Standard
- affected 8.5.5
- affected 8.5.7.CF201706
- affected 8.5.7.CF201703
- affected 8.5.7.CF201612
- affected 8.5.7.CF201609
- affected 8.5.7.CF201606
- affected 8.5.7
- affected 8.5.6.2
- affected 8.5.6.1
- affected 8.5.6
- affected 8.6
- affected 8.5.0.2
- affected 8.5.0.1
- affected 8.5
References
References3
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6527782 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6526488 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ibm-baw-cve202138893-xss (209512) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-25330 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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