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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.

Published Oct 8, 2026, 08:17 PM UTCIngested 45m agoSource NVD(cve-db)CVE-2026-84250

Description

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 v3.1 base metrics

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.4

High severity

Band computed from the CVSS base score, not the source's own label — so it means the same thing across every feed.

AV

Local

Attack Vector

AC

Low

Attack Complexity

PR

None

Privileges Required

UI

None

User Interaction

S

Unchanged

Scope

C

High

Confidentiality

I

High

Integrity

A

High

Availability