VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2026-82340

critical
Assigned by CNA: ibm
Published 2026-09-18 · Modified 2026-09-18
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

CWEs

CWE-94

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.