What is GHSA-w6m4-423c-jp5h?

GHSA-w6m4-423c-jp5h is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable due to weak cryptographic protection and a hard...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-w6m4-423c-jp5h cover?

GHSA-w6m4-423c-jp5h covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-84250. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-w6m4-423c-jp5h?

GHSA-w6m4-423c-jp5h has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.4, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-w6m4-423c-jp5hHighCVSS 8.4

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable due to weak cryptographic protection and a hard...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

October 8, 2026

Last Modified

October 8, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

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.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84250
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w6m4-423c-jp5h