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IBMCVE-2026-82340

IBM Guardium Data Protection: unsafe deserialization

Critical9.8CVE-2026-82340 · Published Sep 18, 2026 · updated Sep 23, 2026

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.

IBM advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Guardium Data Protection
Product
<= 12.2No fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-94

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