CVE-2026-84245: IBM Guardium Data Protection

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation in the cp_wrapper component. A low-privileged local user could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges and access or modify sensitive system files.

Affected products

• IBM Guardium Data Protection: version 12.2 only

Published 2026-10-08. Last modified 2026-10-10.