CVE-2026-84250

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.

CVSS 3.1

7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 0% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-798

Published

2026-10-08

Modified

2026-10-10

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• ibm:guardium_data_protection

References

• https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035

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