Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-80442 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-80442 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-80442?
- Critical severity, with a CVSS score of 9.9, published 18 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-80442?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-80442 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-80442?
- Check whether you run IBM Guardium Data Protection at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
An OS command injection vulnerability exists in the exportCertificate CLI functionality, allowing a privileged authenticated user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges through improper neutralization of special elements in OS command construction. The vulnerability requires authentication and administrative privilege, but can be exploited without user interaction to achieve full system compromise with root-level code execution.
Affected products
- IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2
Timeline
- 2026-09-18: disclosed