IBM Guardium Data Protection: privilege escalation

High7.8CVE-2026-84083 · Published Sep 18, 2026 · updated Sep 23, 2026

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to local privilege escalation via the SUID-root nmap_wrapper binary on the Collector appliance. A local attacker with low-privileged access to the Collector can exploit insufficient argument validation in the SUID binary to execute arbitrary commands as root, resulting in full compromise of the Collector appliance.