RCE in IBM Guardium Data Protection

CVE-2026-85542

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.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.030 (87.3th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.3% 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-2026-85542: rose from 0.024 to 0.030.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.024 · newest: 0.030 · change: +0.006

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-85542?
CVE-2026-85542 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Guardium Data Protection, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2026-09-25.
How severe is CVE-2026-85542?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.