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CVE-2026-84422

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to command injection in the CLI certificate SMIME recipient deletion functionality, allowing an authenticated privileged CLI user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

HIGH 7.2EPSS 0.68%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.68%). 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 command injection in the CLI certificate SMIME recipient deletion functionality, allowing an authenticated privileged CLI user to execute arbitrary commands 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
0.68% probability · 52th 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 trend
0%3%5%30 September 2026: 0.68%26 October 2026: 0.68%30 September 202626 October 2026

EPSS moved from 0.7% on 30 September 2026 to 0.7% on 26 October 2026.

References

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