IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 CLI Command Injection via CSR Wildcard Alias
CVE-2026-81669 Published on September 18, 2026
IBM Guardium Data Protection is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability in the create csr wildcard CLI command. An authenticated privileged CLI user can inject arbitrary shell commands through the alias input, resulting in command execution with root privileges.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-81669 can be exploited with network access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a Shell injection Vulnerability?
The software constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component.
CVE-2026-81669 has been classified to as a Shell injection vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-81669
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