CVE-2026-84272: IBM Guardium Data Protection

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.1 and 12.2.2 are vulnerable to missing authentication in the edge-controller component. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary container images and gain control of managed edge clusters.

Affected products

• IBM Guardium Data Protection: version 12.1 only; version 12.2.2 only

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