Disclosure summary
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.
Source-reported weakness categories
CWE-119
Source-specific records & product guidance
Sources retain their own attribution and scoring. Follow the original record to confirm affected versions, fixed releases, and configuration conditions.
NIST NVD · NVD-CVE-2026-84290
Open original source · Updated Oct 08, 2026
Only CPE matches marked vulnerable=true are indexed. AND/OR platform conditions must be checked in the original NVD record.
Original records & references
GitHub repository matches
Repository matches are links and GitHub-supplied metadata only. They are not verified working proof-of-concept code. Each supported query is bounded to ten pages and at most 1,000 indexed results. This is not a complete index of GitHub or public exploit research. Coverage can also be limited by provider availability, rate limits, rejected metadata, incomplete search results, manual review, and the recorded refresh time.
No stored repository matches
Repository discovery has not recorded an update for this CVE yet.
Discovery progress
0 of 3 discovery queries finished. GitHub returned 0 indexed results; 0 malformed or disallowed results were rejected.
No discovery update has been recorded for this CVE.
View all 0 stored repository matches
PUBLISHED 2026-10-08T19:20:51+00:00
MODIFIED 2026-10-08T20:49:50+00:00
INGESTED 2026-10-11T00:55:03+00:00