CVE-2026-84440

High

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.

SeverityHigh

CVSS7.5

Exploit probability—

Product

Ibm Guardium Data Protection

PublishedSep 29, 2026

First seenSep 29, 2026

Weakness typeCWE-78OS command injection

How to fix

Patches

ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
ibm guardium_data_protection	12.2	—

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