CriticalCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-84272 (CVSS 9.8)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 8, 2026Risk 50/100

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.1 and 12.2.2 are vulnerable to missing authentication in the edge-controller component. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary container images and gain control of managed edge clusters.

Technical details

CVSS

9.8

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

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