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title: "CVE-2026-84278: IBM Guardium Data Protection - Command Injection"
description: "IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 contains a command injection caused by attacker-controlled arguments in the SUID-root ssh_config_wrapper component, letting authenticated high-privileged users execute commands as root."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-84278/
---

# CVE-2026-84278 IBM Guardium Data Protection - Command Injection

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 contains a command injection caused by attacker-controlled arguments in the SUID-root ssh\_config\_wrapper component, letting authenticated high-privileged users execute commands as root.

CVSS base score 7.2 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

EPSS

2.25% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84278)

## Details

Type

Command Injection

Impact

Remote Code Execution, Privilege Escalation

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Published

8 October 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-78](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the latest 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

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84278](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84278)
- [https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035](https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035)

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- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
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