IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0, 12.1, 12.2 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the MongoDB protocol…
IBM · Guardium Data Protection
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0, 12.1 and 12.2 contains a heap-based buffer overflow in the MongoDB protocol parser. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send a specially crafted MongoDB SCRAM username with an excessive length, causing memory corruption that could lead to denial of service or arbitrary code execution, with no user interaction required.
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.
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- Reports
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- Tactics
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Disclosed on 8 Oct 2026. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.
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No techniques linkedNo ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.
What security researchers reported
Not named in any threat report yetAlso mentioned in 12 community threat pulses (AlienVault OTX)
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- Known_Cve | Oct 21, 2026 | Part 1/420 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 20, 2026 | Part 1/419 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 19, 2026 | Part 1/418 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 18, 2026 | Part 1/417 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 17, 2026 | Part 1/416 Oct 2026
- Known_Cve | Oct 16, 2026 | Part 1/315 Oct 2026
- 6 more on OTX