MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-84071 (CVSS 7.2)

NVD · officialPublished Sep 18, 2026Risk 23/100EPSS 1.5%

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to OS command injection in the Universal Connector plugin upload functionality. A privileged authenticated attacker can provide a malicious filename that is incorporated into a shell command executed by the application, potentially resulting in arbitrary command execution with root-level privileges.

Technical details

CVSS

7.2

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:HighUI:NoneC:HighI:HighA:High

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