MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-84271 (CVSS 7.8)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 8, 2026Risk 23/100

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to a signature verification bypass in the patch installer. An attacker with local access could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Technical details

CVSS

7.8

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

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