CVE-2026-84083 IBM Guardium Data Protection - Privilege Escalation

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 contains a local privilege escalation caused by insufficient argument validation in the SUID-root nmap_wrapper binary on the Collector appliance, letting local attackers execute arbitrary commands as root, exploit requires local low-privileged access.

CVSS base score 7.8 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
Authentication
Required
EPSS
0.15% chance of exploitation in 30 days
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Details

Type
Privilege Escalation
Impact
Privilege Escalation, Remote Code Execution
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
18 September 2026
Updated
15 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-269

Vendor fix

Update to the latest available version of IBM Guardium Data Protection.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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