What is CVE-2026-84276?

CVE-2026-84276 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Guardium Data Protection, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2026-10-08.

How severe is CVE-2026-84276?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in IBM Guardium Data Protection

CVE-2026-84276

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2.2 is affected by a denial-of-service vulnerability in the edge-controller. An unauthenticated remote attacker with network access to the edge-controller gRPC service can provide malformed task data that triggers an unchecked type assertion, causing the edge-controller process to terminate unexpectedly.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2026-10-08 · last modified 2026-10-09.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

No EPSS score from FIRST.org yet. New CVEs usually get one within a few days; no score means no signal yet, not low risk. How EPSS works.

Affected products

IBM Guardium Data Protection — versions 12.2.2
IBM Guardium Data Protection — versions 12.2.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288627 (vendor-advisory, patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-84276?: CVE-2026-84276 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Guardium Data Protection, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2026-10-08.
How severe is CVE-2026-84276?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.