CVE-2026-84290

MEDIUMCVSS 5.1

Description

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0, 12.1, 12.2 is affected by an improper validation of user-supplied pointers in the WfpMonitor kernel driver. Certain METHOD_NEITHER IOCTL handlers dereference user-controlled pointers without adequate probing and exception handling, potentially allowing a privileged local attacker to cause a system crash or perform limited kernel-memory reads.

Timeline

Published:October 8th, 2026 7:20 PM

Last modified:October 12th, 2026 11:17 PM

CVSS Scoring

CVSS v3: 5.1 (MEDIUM)

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7291676

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