CriticalCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-82340 (CVSS 9.8)

NVD · officialPublished Sep 18, 2026Risk 50/100EPSS 0.5%

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to unauthenticated insecure deserialization and attacker-controlled reflective method dispatch in the Change Audit System (CAS) listener. A network attacker able to reach TCP port 16017 may submit crafted serialized messages and potentially cause unintended code execution in the Guardium appliance.

Technical details

CVSS

9.8

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:NoneC:HighI:HighA:High

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