CVE-2026-84436: IBM Guardium Data Protection is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
Published Sep 17, 2026
·Updated
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to command injection in the certificate export CLI functionality, allowing a privileged authenticated CLI user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
Affected Software
4 affected components
All of the following
IBM Guardium Data Protection=12.2
Linux Linux kernel
IBM Guardium Data Protection<=12.2
IBM Guardium Data Protection<=12.1
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
- Upgrade
Upgrade
IBM Guardium Data Protectionto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Patch SqlGuard_12.0p233_FixPack
Event History
Sep 17, 2026
CVE Published
via IBM·12:00 AM
Data Sourced
via IBM·12:00 AM
DescriptionAffected Software
Sep 29, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·05:53 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·05:53 PM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·06:17 PM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software
Frequently Asked Questions
1
Who can exploit this vulnerability?
Exploitation requires a privileged, authenticated user with access to the CLI certificate export functionality.
2
What level of access could an attacker gain?
A successful exploit can allow arbitrary command execution with root privileges.