---
id: CVE-2026-84440
title: >-
  IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to command injection in the
  SNMP alert notification functionality
summary: >-
  IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to command injection in the
  SNMP alert notification functionality. An authenticated attacker who can
  influence policy alert text can cause attacker-controlled data to be executed
  as operati…
severity: high
cvss: 7.5
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/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: '2026-09-29T19:17:26.790'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84440'
references:
  - url: 'https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035'
    label: psirt@us.ibm.com
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: total
  timestamp: '2026-09-29T18:12:13.935163Z'
ingestedAt: '2026-09-29T18:42:35.821Z'
---

## Overview

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to command injection in the SNMP alert notification functionality. An authenticated attacker who can influence policy alert text can cause attacker-controlled data to be executed as operating system commands by the SNMP alerter service, which runs with root privileges.

## Remediation

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