CVE-2026-84250IBM Guardium Data Protection Hard-coded Credentials
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EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.09%, higher than 1% of scored CVEs.
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
- 8.4 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-798
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- 0.09% (percentile 1)
- Assigned by
- ibm
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Oct 9, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
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