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CVE-2026-84440

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to command injection in the SNMP alert notification functionality.

HIGH 8.8EPSS 0.74%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.74%). 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 SNMP alert notification functionality. An authenticated attacker who can influence policy alert text can cause attacker-controlled data to be executed as operating system commands by the SNMP alerter service, which runs with root privileges.

CVSS 3.1: 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.74% probability · 54th 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

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

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035Patch, Vendor Advisory

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