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Security Bulletin: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in the Containerized Version of IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager

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Summary

Multiple security vulnerabilities affecting the containerized version of IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager have been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2025-5278
DESCRIPTION:   A flaw was found in GNU Coreutils. The sort utility's begfield() function is vulnerable to a heap buffer under-read. The program may access memory outside the allocated buffer if a user runs a crafted command using the traditional key format. A malicious input could lead to a crash or leak sensitive data.
CWE:   CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow
CVSS Source:   secalert@redhat.com
CVSS Base score:   4.4
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2026-5450
DESCRIPTION:   Calling the scanf family of functions with a %mc (malloc'd character match) in the GNU C Library version 2.7 to version 2.43 with a format width specifier with an explicit width greater than 1024 could result in a one byte heap buffer overflow.
CWE:   CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CVSS Source:   CISA ADP
CVSS Base score:   9.8
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2026-31790
DESCRIPTION:   Issue summary: Applications using RSASVE key encapsulation to establish a secret encryption key can send contents of an uninitialized memory buffer to a malicious peer. Impact summary: The uninitialized buffer might contain sensitive data from the previous execution of the application process which leads to sensitive data leakage to an attacker. RSA_public_encrypt() returns the number of bytes written on success and -1 on error. The affected code tests only whether the return value is non-zero. As a result, if RSA encryption fails, encapsulation can still return success to the caller, set the output lengths, and leave the caller to use the contents of the ciphertext buffer as if a valid KEM ciphertext had been produced. If applications use EVP_PKEY_encapsulate() with RSA/RSASVE on an attacker-supplied invalid RSA public key without first validating that key, then this may cause stale or uninitialized contents of the caller-provided ciphertext buffer to be disclosed to the attacker in place of the KEM ciphertext. As a workaround calling EVP_PKEY_public_check() or EVP_PKEY_public_check_quick() before EVP_PKEY_encapsulate() will mitigate the issue. The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.1 and 3.0 are affected by this issue.
CWE:   CWE-754: Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
CVSS Source:   CISA ADP
CVSS Base score:   7.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-34459
DESCRIPTION:   An issue was discovered in xmllint (from libxml2) before 2.11.8 and 2.12.x before 2.12.7. Formatting error messages with xmllint --htmlout can result in a buffer over-read in xmlHTMLPrintFileContext in xmllint.c.
CWE:   CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   7.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-13151
DESCRIPTION:   Stack-based buffer overflow in libtasn1 version: v4.20.0. The function fails to validate the size of input data resulting in a buffer overflow in asn1_expend_octet_string.
CWE:   CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
CVSS Source:   CISA ADP
CVSS Base score:   7.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2026-42198
DESCRIPTION:   pgjdbc is an open source postgresql JDBC Driver. From version 42.2.0 to before version 42.7.11, pgjdbc is vulnerable to a client-side denial of service during SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication. A malicious server can instruct the driver to perform SCRAM authentication with a very large iteration count. With a large enough value, the client spends an unbounded amount of CPU time inside PBKDF2 before authentication can fail. A single attempt ties up a CPU core. Repeated or concurrent attempts exhaust client CPU and can wedge connection pools. In affected versions, loginTimeout did not fully mitigate this problem. When loginTimeout expired, the caller could stop waiting, but the worker thread performing the connection attempt could continue running and burning CPU inside the SCRAM PBKDF2 computation. This issue has been patched in version 42.7.11.
CWE:   CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS Source:   security-advisories@github.com
CVSS Base score:   7.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) - GKLM Containerized Versions onlyVersion(s)
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager4.1
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager4.1.1
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager4.2
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager4.2.1
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager5.0
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager5.1

 

Note: Traditional (non-containerized) versions of IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager are not impacted. 

Remediation/Fixes

IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.

 

Principal Product and Version(s) - GKLM Containerized Versions onlyRemediation/Fixes
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM) v4.1Apply 5.1.0-ISS-GKLM-FP0002
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM) v4.1.1
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM) v4.2
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM) v4.2.1
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM) v5.0
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM) v5.1

 

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Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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Acknowledgement

Change History

24 Jul 2026: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
24 July 2026

Initial Publish date:
24 July 2026

UID

ibm17281099