CVE-2026-8405 (GCVE-0-2026-8405)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 13:20 – Updated: 2026-05-27 15:32
VLAI
Title
IBM Guardium Data Protection is affected by Exposure of Sensitive Information vulnerability
Summary
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2.1, and 12.2.2 's add-on feature of Guardium Data Protection named "Long Term Retention" (LTR) can expose sensitive credentials in debug mode.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Assigner
ibm
References
URL Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7273657 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Guardium Data Protection Affected: 12.2.1 , ≤ 4.4.7 Fix Pack 1 (semver)
Affected: 12.2.2
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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