CVE-2026-84083: IBM Guardium Data Protection

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• IBM Guardium Data Protection: version 12.2 only

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