High severity8.4NVD Advisory· Published Oct 8, 2026· Updated Oct 8, 2026
CVE-2026-84250
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.
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Affected products
1- Range: 12.2
Patches
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