CVE-2026-82900 — Guardium Data Protection
HIGHCVE-2026-82900 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.1) Path Traversal vulnerability in ibm guardium data protection. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2.2, and 12.1 could allow a remote attacker to delete arbitrary files due to improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory.
Description
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2.2, and 12.1 could allow a remote attacker to delete arbitrary files due to improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory.
Affected Products
guardium data protectionibmDetection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every ibm guardium data protection deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2026-82900 yet — track the ibm guardium data protection advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Resolve every user-supplied path to its canonical form and reject anything that escapes the intended directory, and run the component under an account that has no read or write access outside the directory it legitimately serves. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2026-82900 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.