---
id: CVE-2026-84436
title: >-
  IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to command injection in the
  certificate export CLI functionality, allowing a privileged authenticated CLI
  user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
summary: >-
  IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to command injection in the
  certificate export CLI functionality, allowing a privileged authenticated CLI
  user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
severity: critical
cvss: 9.1
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-78
vendor: ibm
product: guardium_data_protection
affected:
  - guardium_data_protection = 12.2
published: '2026-09-29'
updated: '2026-10-02'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-02T13:45:31.090'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84436'
references:
  - url: 'https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288040'
    label: psirt@us.ibm.com
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00676
epssPercentile: 0.5205
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: total
  timestamp: '2026-09-29T20:53:48.509225Z'
ingestedAt: '2026-09-29T18:42:35.821Z'
---

## Overview

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to command injection in the certificate export CLI functionality, allowing a privileged authenticated CLI user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

## Affected

- `guardium_data_protection = 12.2`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.