CVE-2026-84290

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.1 Medium

Status

Analyzed - psirt@us.ibm.com

Published

2026-10-08

Last modified

2026-10-13

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Guardium Data Protection (Ibm)

References

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