CVE-2026-84078

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Publication date:

18/09/2026

Last modified:

06/10/2026

Description

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to a missing authentication vulnerability in the LoadBalancerServlet. An unauthenticated user can access privileged load-balancer operations, potentially resulting in unauthorized actions and impact to the integrity and availability of the affected system.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.90 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x

9.90

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.2:::::::*

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288040