What is GHSA-3m7g-89m5-5fvc?

GHSA-3m7g-89m5-5fvc is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0, 12.1, 12.2 is affected by an improper validation of user...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-3m7g-89m5-5fvc cover?

GHSA-3m7g-89m5-5fvc covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-84290. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-3m7g-89m5-5fvc?

GHSA-3m7g-89m5-5fvc has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.1, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-3m7g-89m5-5fvcMediumCVSS 5.1

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0, 12.1, 12.2 is affected by an improper validation of user...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

October 8, 2026

Last Modified

October 8, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-84290 →

📋 Description

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.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84290
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7291676
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3m7g-89m5-5fvc