{"id":"CVE-2026-84884","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-84884","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:52:13.834Z","title":"An authenticated attacker who gains access to the stored credential could recover the password and obtain an administrative REST access token.","description":"IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 stores internal REST service-account passwords in a reversible plaintext-equivalent format. An authenticated attacker who gains access to the stored credential could recover the password and obtain an administrative REST access token.","published":"2026-09-25T14:17:20.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-20T19:03:18.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@us.ibm.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-256"],"affected":["ibm/guardium data protection"],"epss":{"score":0.00244,"percentile":0.1548,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-09-26","score":0.00235,"percentile":0.12965}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.24%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-10-20T19:15:07.000Z","detail":{"from":"7.5","score":"8.8","severity":"HIGH","fromSeverity":"HIGH"},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 8.8 HIGH (was 7.5)."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-25T14:17:20.000Z","detail":{"score":"7.5","severity":"HIGH","publishedAt":"2026-09-25T14:17:19.770Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 8.8)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"psirt@us.ibm.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84884","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}