CVE-2026-85542CWE-78command-injection

CVE-2026-85542

High · published September 25, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
2%
Percentile
84.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02463 · 84.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-78 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Published
2026-09-25T18:17Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
ibm/guardium_data_protectionall versions—
ibm/guardium_data_protectionall versions—
References (1)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288035 · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 SEP 03:28Z
    EPSS moved — → 2%
    epss
  • 25 SEP 13:53Z
    IBM Guardium Data Protection is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
    cvelistv5