{"id":"CVE-2026-84083","title":"IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to local privilege escalation via the SUID-root nmap_wrapper binary on the Collector appliance","summary":"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 argumen…","severity":"high","cvss":7.8,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","cwe":["CWE-269"],"vendor":"IBM","product":"Guardium Data Protection","affected":["guardium_data_protection 12.2"],"published":"2026-09-18","updated":"2026-09-19","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-19T15:17:05.750","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84083","references":[{"url":"https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035","label":"psirt@us.ibm.com"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"epss":0.00114,"epssPercentile":0.01669,"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"total","timestamp":"2026-09-19T13:28:03.529331Z"},"ingestedAt":"2026-09-18T20:51:25.684Z","slug":"CVE-2026-84083","body":"## Overview\n\nIBM 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":43,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":42.9,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}