CVE-2023-4853Quarkus: http security policy bypass

Description

A flaw was found in Quarkus where HTTP security policies are not sanitizing certain character permutations correctly when accepting requests, resulting in incorrect evaluation of permissions. This issue could allow an attacker to bypass the security policy altogether, resulting in unauthorized endpoint access and possibly a denial of service.

Timeline

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.

Affected products

• Red Hat · Openshift Serverless 1 on RHEL 8

  • unaffected 0:1.9.2-3.el8 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of OptaPlanner 8

  All versions: unaffected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Quarkus 2.13.8.SP2

  • unaffected 2.13.8.Final-redhat-00005 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Quarkus 2.13.8.SP2

  • unaffected 2.13.8.Final-redhat-00005 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Quarkus 2.13.8.SP2

  • unaffected 2.13.8.Final-redhat-00005 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Camel Extensions for Quarkus 2.13.3-1

  All versions: unaffected

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 1.30

  • unaffected 1.9.2-3 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 1.30

  • unaffected 1.30.1-1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 1.30

  • unaffected 1.30.1-1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 1.30

  • unaffected 1.9.2-3 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 1.30

  • unaffected 1.30.1-1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 1.30

  • unaffected 1.30.1-1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 1.30

  • unaffected 1.30.1-1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 1.30

  • unaffected 1.30.0-5 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 1.30

  • unaffected 1.30.0-6 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Serverless 1.30

  • unaffected 1.30.0-6 – < *

• Red Hat · RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers

  • unaffected 7.13.4-3 – < *

• Red Hat · RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers

  • unaffected 7.13.4-2 – < *

• Red Hat · RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers

  • unaffected 7.13.4-2 – < *

• Red Hat · RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers

  • unaffected 7.13.4-3 – < *

• Red Hat · RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers

  • unaffected 7.13.4-3 – < *

• Red Hat · RHINT Camel-K-1.10.2

  All versions: unaffected

• Red Hat · RHINT Service Registry 2.5.4 GA

  All versions: unaffected

• Red Hat · RHPAM 7.13.4 async

  All versions: unaffected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Quarkus

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Quarkus

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 2

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Process Automation 7

  All versions: affected

What to do

Workaround: Use a ‘deny’ wildcard for base paths, then authenticate specifics within that: Examples: ``` deny: /* authenticated: /services/* ``` or ``` deny: /services/* roles-allowed: /services/rbac/* ``` NOTE: Products are only vulnerable if they use (or allow use of) path-based HTTP policy configuration. Products may also be affected–shipping the component in question–without being vulnerable (“affected at reduced impact”). See https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2023-002 for more detailed mitigations.

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• EUVD EUVD-2023-2416 (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-4f4r-wgv2-jjvg (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 4 Nov 2026, 20:54 UTC.