Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-84290
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0, 12.1, 12.2 is affected by an improper validation of user-supplied pointers in the WfpMonitor kernel driver. Certain METHOD_NEITHER IOCTL handlers dereference user-controlled pointers without adequate probing and exception handling, potentially allowing a privileged local attacker to cause a system crash or perform limited kernel-memory reads.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 1.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.1
Products affected by CVE-2026-84290
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cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.0
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cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.1
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cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:12.2
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-