Version 12.2 of IBM Guardium Data Protection carries the critical CVE-2026-84436 flaw scoring 9.1 on CVSS. Command injection in the certificate export CLI lets a privileged user execute commands as root.
The flaw allows root-level command execution.
This setup lets an authenticated CLI user who holds privileges run any commands desired under root access.
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NVD published two more high-severity CVE records for IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 on September 25: CVE-2026-85542 (CVSS 8.8), a command injection bug, and CVE-2026-85029 (CVSS 7.5), a path traversal flaw. IBM lists fix pack SqlGuard_12.0p233.
IBM disclosed CVE-2026-16841, a high-severity stack buffer overflow in AIX 7.2, 7.3 and PowerVM VIOS 4.1 that could allow remote arbitrary code execution with a CVSS score of 8.8. The flaw, published August 19 2026, requires prompt patching on affected enterprise Unix and virtualization platforms. Direct NVD page not yet surfaced in searches; support page referenced in related IBM AIX CVE reports.
CVE-2026-100841 affects every release of the MONAI medical imaging AI framework through 1.6.0. A local user who can write to a shared cache directory can plant a malicious pickle file that runs code in another user's pipeline. It is rated high severity and no stable fix has shipped.
CVE-2026-100740 is an out-of-bounds write in the L2TP code of the D-Link DIR-895L router on firmware A1_102b07. It can be triggered remotely, scores 8.6 (high), and an exploit is public.
Microsoft Office Outlook has an integer overflow flaw, CVE-2026-100208, that could let an unauthorized attacker run code over a network. Microsoft scores it 7.5 (High), and an attack needs user interaction.
