CVE-2026-81669 PUBLISHED

IBM Guardium Data Protection is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Assigner: ibm
Reserved: 27.08.2026 Published: 18.09.2026 Updated: 18.09.2026

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability in the create csr wildcard CLI command. An authenticated privileged CLI user can inject arbitrary shell commands through the alias input, resulting in command execution with root privileges.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.2

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	High	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	IBM
Product	Guardium Data Protection
Versions	Version 12.2 is affected

Solutions

IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.

ProductVersions FixIBM Guardium Data Protection12.2 https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=12.2&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_12.0p233_FixPack&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288040

Problem Types

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') CWE