Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-84275 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-84275 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-84275?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.5, published 8 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-84275?
- 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-2026-84275 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-84275?
- 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
Path traversal vulnerability in the GIM (Guardium Insights Module) file-upload functionality allows an unauthenticated network attacker to write arbitrary files to the Collector via directory traversal sequences (e.g., ../). No authentication is required, making this a direct network-accessible attack vector that can lead to system compromise.
Affected products
- IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2
Timeline
- 2026-10-08: disclosed