CVE-2026-84083

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.

CVSS 3.1

7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 4% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-269

Published

2026-09-18

Modified

2026-10-06

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• ibm:guardium_data_protection

References

• https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035

Check your stackJSON