CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-84250
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-10-08
- Last modified
- 2026-10-10
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-798
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• ibm guardium data protection 12.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness
References
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035 Vendor Advisory