CVE-2026-84278 — Guardium Data Protection
HIGHCVE-2026-84278 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.2) 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 is affected by a command injection vulnerability in the SUID-root ssh_config_wrapper component. An authenticated high-privileged user can inject arbitrary…
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2026-84278.
Description
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is affected by a command injection vulnerability in the SUID-root ssh_config_wrapper component. An authenticated high-privileged user can inject arbitrary commands through attacker-controlled arguments, resulting in command execution with root privileges.
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-2026-84278 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-2026-84278 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.