MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-84250 (CVSS 8.4)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 8, 2026Risk 37/100

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.

Technical details

CVSS

8.4

AV:LocalAC:LowPR:NoneUI:NoneC:HighI:HighA:High

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