CVE-2026-84250 (GCVE-0-2026-84250)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-08 19:07 – Updated: 2026-10-08 19:07
VLAI
Title
IBM Guardium Data Protection Hard-coded Credentials
Summary
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable due to weak cryptographic protection and a hard-coded recovery key in the pkcrypto passkey component. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to recover the root password and gain root privileges.
Severity
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Assigner
ibm CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 88/100 over 1165 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM Guardium Data Protection Affected: 12.2
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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