{"id":"CVE-2026-84290","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-84290","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:58:40.235Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2026-10-08T19:20:52.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-13T19:52:35.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@us.ibm.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["ibm/guardium data protection"],"epss":{"score":0.00111,"percentile":0.01295,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-09","score":0.00111,"percentile":0.01235}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.11%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-08T19:20:52.000Z","detail":{"score":"5.1","severity":"MEDIUM","publishedAt":"2026-10-08T19:20:51.530Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 5.1)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7291676","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"psirt@us.ibm.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84290","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}