CVE-2026-12628
Hardcoded credential in the IBM Storage Protect Snapshot For Windows leads to unauthorized access to system
02 Description
Hardcoded credential in the IBM Storage Protect Snapshot For Windows leads to unauthorized access to system
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
- Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.63% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 49.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Undergoing Analysis. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-26.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2026-06-22 13:43Z4 MO AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-06-25 13:46Z4 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2026-06-18
- Assigning CNA
- ibm
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Critical (CVSS 9.1)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-798Use of Hard-coded CredentialsBase
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 535e24424a50e2ea0ce87365209f15f75376de0b7b81ba1d5e1801f6df2ac932
05 Affected products
06 References
07 Remediation
IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now. ProductFixing levelPlatformsLink to fix and instructionsIBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client8.2.1.1Windows https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7267111 Currently, the vulnerability has been addressed on the Windows platform through an iFix release. A hardcoded password present in the source code of IBM Storage Protect Snapshot For Windows, which led to a security vulnerability, has been resolved in this release. For other platforms (AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris), the hardcoded password still exists in the code; however, it is not actively used and is only identified during static code scans. This issue has been assessed as low severity, and separate PVRs have been created to track it.