CVE-2026-84272
criticalIBM Guardium Data Protection 12.1 and 12.2.2 are vulnerable to missing authentication in the edge-controller component.
Vendor / product: Ibm — guardium data protection
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.1 and 12.2.2 are vulnerable to missing authentication in the edge-controller component. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary container images and gain control of managed edge clusters.
CVSS
9.8
9.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (psirt@us.ibm.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-10-08 20:17
Modified: 2026-10-10 13:17
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 2 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:58 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
ibm / guardium_data_protection 12.1, 12.2.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
Vendor advisory: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288832
References
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288832 psirt@us.ibm.com
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:58 UTC · record ↗