MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-84440 (CVSS 7.5)

NVD · officialPublished Sep 29, 2026Risk 23/100

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.

Technical details

CVSS

7.5

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

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