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CVE-2026-82335

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0, 12.1, 12.2 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the MongoDB protocol parser.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 0.38%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.38%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0, 12.1, 12.2 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the MongoDB protocol parser. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted MongoDB SCRAM username containing an excessive length and cause memory corruption, potentially resulting in denial of service or arbitrary code execution.

CVSS 3.1: 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.38% probability · 31th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-119, CWE-787
Affected: ibm/guardium data protection
Source: psirt@us.ibm.com

EPSS trend

EPSS moved from 0.4% on 9 October 2026 to 0.4% on 22 October 2026.

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7291674Vendor Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.