CVE-2026-85542

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 8.8 High

Status

Analyzed - psirt@us.ibm.com

Published

2026-09-25

Last modified

2026-10-20

Weaknesses

CWE-78

Affected products

• Guardium Data Protection (Ibm)

References

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