CVE-2026-84083

HIGHCVSS 7.8

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.

Timeline

Published:September 18th, 2026 8:17 PM

Last modified:September 23rd, 2026 4:17 AM

CVSS Scoring

CVSS v3: 7.8 (HIGH)

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-269

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

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

Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute