HIGH 8.4 NVD

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 at

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 Products

ibm/guardium_data_protection

References

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

Published: 2026-10-08 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-10-12

This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.4 was published on 2026-10-08 via NVD. Affected: ibm/guardium_data_protection.

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