Is CVE-2026-84071 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-84071?

CVE-2026-84071 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.2).

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CVE-2026-84071

Description

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to OS command injection in the Universal Connector plugin upload functionality. A privileged authenticated attacker can provide a malicious filename that is incorporated into a shell command executed by the application, potentially resulting in arbitrary command execution with root-level privileges.