CVE-2026-84440 IBM Guardium Data Protection - Command Injection

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 contains a command injection caused by insufficient sanitization of policy alert text in SNMP alert notification functionality, letting authenticated attackers execute OS commands as root.

CVSS base score 7.5 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
Authentication
Required
EPSS
0.74% chance of exploitation in 30 days
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Details

Type
Command Injection
Impact
Remote Code Execution
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
29 September 2026
Updated
15 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-78

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

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