CVE-2026-84034: IBM Guardium Data Protection

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to a hardcoded credentials vulnerability in the hardware_assess/obstore binaries. A low-privileged authenticated user can recover hardcoded product master secrets, potentially resulting in unauthorized access to the internal database and compromise of sensitive system information.

Affected products

• IBM Guardium Data Protection: version 12.2 only

Published 2026-09-18. Last modified 2026-10-06.