CVE-2026-84290 — Security vulnerability affects the Windows S-TAP component as part of IBM Guardium Data Protection
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 handl…
Published: 2026-10-08 · CVSS: 5.1 · CVSS 3.1
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: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7