Vulnerability · Published Sep 18, 2026 · Assigned by ibm

CVE-2026-84083IBM Guardium Data Protection is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity privilege mismanagement in Guardium Data Protection from IBM. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 4% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 95.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to local privilege escalation via the SUID-root nmap_wrapper binary on the Collector appliance. A local attacker with low-privileged access to the Collector can exploit insufficient argument validation in the SUID binary to execute arbitrary commands as root, resulting in full compromise of the Collector appliance.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
IBM	Guardium Data Protection	12.2

Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035 vendor-advisory, patch