CVE-2026-84440: IBM Guardium Data Protection

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to command injection in the SNMP alert notification functionality. An authenticated attacker who can influence policy alert text can cause attacker-controlled data to be executed as operating system commands by the SNMP alerter service, which runs with root privileges.

Affected products

• IBM Guardium Data Protection: version 12.2 only

Published 2026-09-29. Last modified 2026-10-01.