Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-82895 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-82895 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-82895?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.1, published 8 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0, 12.1, 12.2.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-82895?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-82895 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-82895?
- Check whether you run IBM Guardium Data Protection at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
CVE-2026-82895 is a classic buffer overflow (CWE-120) in the Sniffer component's packet processing logic. The vulnerability requires network access and a partially complex exploitation condition (AC:H), but allows unauthenticated remote code execution with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. A patch is available via IBM Support.
Affected products
- IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0, 12.1, 12.2
Timeline
- 2026-10-08: disclosed