MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-85542 (CVSS 8.8)

NVD · officialPublished Sep 25, 2026Risk 37/100

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is affected by a command injection vulnerability in the GIM bundle import functionality. An authenticated attacker can provide a crafted GIM bundle that causes attacker-controlled arguments to be passed to the tar command, resulting in arbitrary command execution with elevated privileges on the Central Manager.

Technical details

CVSS

8.8

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

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