CVE-2026-84250CWE-798hardcoded-credentials

CVE-2026-84250

High · published October 9, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
0.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.4 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00094 · 0.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-798 · Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Published
2026-10-09T00:17Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
ibm/guardium_data_protectionall versions—
References (1)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035 · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 OCT 03:32Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 08 OCT 19:07Z
    IBM Guardium Data Protection Hard-coded Credentials
    cvelistv5
  • 08 OCT 19:07Z
    IBM Guardium Data Protection Hard-coded Credentials
    cvelistv5