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CVE-2026-85542

IBM Guardium Data Protection is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

CVSS 3.1 8.8 HIGHCheck source for fixed versionsKEV status unknown

Original advisory

Historical advisory recorded 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC. Read the latest advisory.

cve-program · CVE-2026-85542

Published

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.

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Affected versions, risk and source history

cve-program · CVE-2026-85542

Published

Guardium Data Protection

Vendor product

Publisher's version information

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{
                    "vendor": "IBM",
                    "product": "Guardium Data Protection",
                    "versions": [
                        {
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "12.2",
                            "versionType": "custom"
                        }
                    ],
                    "cpes": [
                        "cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                        "cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
                    ]
                }

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