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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035 Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.8 · ibmNVD modified 2026-10-10 04:18
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035 Vendor Advisory