CVE-2026-85542

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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.

Severity

HIGH

CVSS score

8.8 (v3.1)

Vulnerability status

Analyzed

Source identifier

[email protected]

Published

2026-09-25 14:17:20.193000

Last modified

2026-10-20 18:57:52.177000

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