CVE-2026-81669
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability in the create csr wildcard CLI command.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.32%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability in the create csr wildcard CLI command. An authenticated privileged CLI user can inject arbitrary shell commands through the alias input, resulting in command execution with root privileges.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.32% probability · 71th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Affected
- ibm/guardium data protection
- Source
- psirt@us.ibm.com
EPSS 1.3% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288040Patch, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.