CVE-2026-85542

HIGHCVSS 8.8

Description

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.

Timeline

Published:September 25th, 2026 2:17 PM

Last modified:September 27th, 2026 4:16 AM

CVSS Scoring

CVSS v3: 8.8 (HIGH)

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-78

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