CVE-2026-84071: IBM Guardium Data Protection

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• IBM Guardium Data Protection: version 12.2 only

Published 2026-09-18. Last modified 2026-10-06.