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CVE-2023-5236

Infinispan: circular reference on marshalling leads to dos

Published: Dec 18, 2023Updated: Sep 25, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSANVD-CWE-Other
NVD MITRE
4.4CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.9%
Top 45.4%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

A flaw was found in Infinispan, which does not detect circular object references when unmarshalling. An authenticated attacker with sufficient permissions could insert a maliciously constructed object into the cache and use it to cause out of memory errors and achieve a denial of service.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:HPR:HUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:HPrivileges Required
High
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

Red Hat Data Grid 8.4.4Red Hat
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3Red Hat
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4Red Hat
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat build of Debezium 2Red Hat
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat build of Debezium 3Red Hat
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
red hatcommercialUSOperating Systemsaka red hat
and 12 more affected products View all →

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5396
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5236
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240999
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and 10 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Dec 18, 2023
Last Updated
Sep 25, 2025

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