CVE-2026-84230

Summary

A race condition in IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by concurrently writing to a shared map without proper synchronization, potentially leading to system instability or unavailability.

Exploitability

Exploitation is moderately difficult as it requires precise timing and concurrent access to the affected shared map, but does not require authentication or complex payloads.

Blast radius

If exploited, this vulnerability could impact all database monitoring and protection functions within the Guardium system, potentially causing widespread data protection outages across monitored databases.

Detection

No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.

Prioritized remediation

Upgrade to IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2.3 or later to address the race condition in shared map handling.

Analysis generated locally by garnet-coder (no data left the box). AI-assisted — verify against primary sources before acting.