CVE-2026-85542

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.

  • Published Sep 25, 2026
  • CVSS 8.8 high
  • 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

Affected software

CVE-2026-85542 at the National Vulnerability Database