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CVE-2026-85542: IBM Guardium Data Protection is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-09-25 · updated 2026-10-20
- Weakness: CWE-78
Description
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: 12.1, 12.2
References
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