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CVE-2026-84290

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.

MEDIUM 5.1EPSS 0.11%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.11%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 3.1: 5.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
EPSS: 0.11% probability · 1th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-119
Affected: ibm/guardium data protection
Source: psirt@us.ibm.com

EPSS trend

EPSS moved from 0.1% on 9 October 2026 to 0.1% on 26 October 2026.

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7291676Vendor Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.