CVE-2026-85542: IBM Guardium Data Protection

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is affected by a command injection vulnerability in the GIM bundle import functionality. An authenticated attacker can provide a crafted GIM bundle that causes attacker-controlled arguments to be passed to the tar command, resulting in arbitrary command execution with elevated privileges on the Central Manager.

Affected products

• IBM Guardium Data Protection: version 12.2 only

Published 2026-09-25. Last modified 2026-09-27.