Is CVE-2026-84250 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-84250?

CVE-2026-84250 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (8.4).

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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.