---
id: CVE-2026-84436
title: >-
  IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to command injection in the
  certificate export CLI functionality, allowing a privileged authenticated CLI
  user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
summary: >-
  IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to command injection in the
  certificate export CLI functionality, allowing a privileged authenticated CLI
  user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
severity: critical
cvss: 9.1
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-78
vendor: IBM
product: Guardium Data Protection
affected:
  - guardium_data_protection 12.2
published: '2026-09-29'
updated: '2026-09-29'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-29T18:17:17.823'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84436'
references:
  - url: 'https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288040'
    label: psirt@us.ibm.com
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
ingestedAt: '2026-09-29T18:42:35.821Z'
---

## Overview

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to command injection in the certificate export CLI functionality, allowing a privileged authenticated CLI user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.