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High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 25, 2026· Updated Oct 20, 2026

CVE-2026-85542

CVE-2026-85542

Description

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.

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Affected products

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  • IBM/Guardium Data Protection3 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: 12.2

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