CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-84271

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.10%

1th percentile - higher than 1% of all known CVEs

Summary

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to a signature verification bypass in the patch installer. An attacker with local access could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Risk Assessment

Risk of full system compromise by a local attacker, potentially leading to data integrity and confidentiality breaches.

Recommendation

Apply available patches from IBM for Guardium Data Protection 12.2 and restrict local access to trusted users only.

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Original NVD description (English source)

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to a signature verification bypass in the patch installer. An attacker with local access could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS