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CVE-2026-84440

Ibm Guardium Data Protection: OS command injection

Risk score
64/100
CVSS
8.8 v3.1
Exploit chance (30 days)
0.7%
Published
29 Sep 2026

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What to know

What it is
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.
Affected
Ibm Guardium Data Protection
Fix
Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
Exploitation
No known exploitation

Why it is Amber

  • CVSS 8.8 high

References

Original description

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.

Last activity 29 Sep 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.