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IBMCVE-2026-84071

IBM Guardium Data Protection: command injection

High7.2CVE-2026-84071 · Published Sep 18, 2026 · updated Sep 23, 2026

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to OS command injection in the Universal Connector plugin upload functionality. A privileged authenticated attacker can provide a malicious filename that is incorporated into a shell command executed by the application, potentially resulting in arbitrary command execution with root-level privileges.

IBM advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Guardium Data Protection
Product
<= 12.2No fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-78

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