RCE in IBM Guardium Data Protection

CVE-2026-81669

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.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (70.9th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 70.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2026-81669: held from 0.013 to 0.013.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-81669?
CVE-2026-81669 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Guardium Data Protection, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2026-09-18.
How severe is CVE-2026-81669?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.