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CVE-2026-84290: Security vulnerability affects the Windows S-TAP component as part of IBM Guardium Data Protection
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-10-08 · updated 2026-10-13
- Weakness: CWE-119
Description
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0, 12.1, 12.2 is affected by an improper validation of user-supplied pointers in the WfpMonitor kernel driver. Certain METHOD_NEITHER IOCTL handlers dereference user-controlled pointers without adequate probing and exception handling, potentially allowing a privileged local attacker to cause a system crash or perform limited kernel-memory reads.
Affected products
- IBM Guardium Data Protection: from 12.0 through 12.2
References
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