CVE-2026-84057 — Guardium Data Protection
HIGHCVE-2026-84057 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.1) OS Command Injection vulnerability in ibm guardium data protection. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2.2, and 12.1 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands due to improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS command.
Description
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2.2, and 12.1 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands due to improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS command.
Affected Products
guardium data protectionibmDetection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every ibm guardium data protection deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2026-84057 yet — track the ibm guardium data protection advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Stop passing untrusted input into the interpreter or shell: call the affected binary with an argument array rather than a composed command string, reject anything outside a strict allowlist of expected values, and run the component under an account that cannot reach beyond the work it legitimately does. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2026-84057 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.