CVE-2021-20418 describes a critical vulnerability in IBM Security Guardium 11.2, where the default configuration does not enforce strong passwords, making user accounts susceptible to compromise. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to achieve full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Despite its high severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
11.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:security_guardium:11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.