CVE-2026-84422 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Ibm	Guardium Data Protection
Linux	Linux Kernel

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288034

History

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Linux Linux linux Kernel
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-:::::::*
Vendors & Products		Linux Linux linux Kernel

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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.
Title		IBM Guardium Data Protection is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
First Time appeared		Ibm Ibm guardium Data Protection
Weaknesses		CWE-78
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.2.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.2:::::::*
Vendors & Products		Ibm Ibm guardium Data Protection
References		https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288034
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: ibm

Published: 2026-09-29T17:55:27.537Z

Updated: 2026-09-30T03:56:41.683Z

Reserved: 2026-09-01T17:54:27.939Z

Link: CVE-2026-84422

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-29T18:11:50.015Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-09-29T18:17:17.693

Modified: 2026-10-02T13:46:13.227

Link: CVE-2026-84422

Redhat

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