CVE-2026-84440 HIGH

CVE-2026-84440: IBM Guardium Data Protection is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Vendor Ibm

Product Guardium Data Protection

Weakness CWE-78

Published September 29, 2026

Last update September 30, 2026

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CVSS base score

7.5/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity High

Privileges required Low

User interaction None

Confidentiality High

Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to command injection in the SNMP alert notification functionality. An authenticated attacker who can influence policy alert text can cause attacker-controlled data to be executed as operating system commands by the SNMP alerter service, which runs with root privileges.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 29, 2026 CVE published

September 30, 2026 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84440 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html AskarLabs — CWE-78 write-up OS Command Injection

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