NVD HIGH: CVE-2026-84250 — IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable due to weak cryptographic protec...

Thursday, October 8, 2026 at 08:17 PM UTC·Source: NIST NVD

Updated: Thursday, October 8, 2026 at 09:00 PM UTC

Executive Summary

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.

Analysis

Indicators of Compromise (1)

CVE (1)

CVE-2026-84250

NVD MITRE CVE

Source Attribution

Originally published by NIST NVD on Oct 8, 2026. Verified by: NIST.

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