CVE-2026-84083

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to local privilege escalation via the SUID-root nmap_wrapper binary on the Collector appliance. A local attacker with low-privileged access to the Collector can exploit insufficient argument validation in the SUID binary to execute arbitrary commands as root, resulting in full compromise of the Collector appliance.

  • Published Sep 18, 2026
  • CVSS 7.8 high
  • 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

Affected software

CVE-2026-84083 at the National Vulnerability Database