CVE-2023-5236Infinispan: circular reference on marshalling leads to dos
- 4.4MediumCVSS base score
- 1.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 34% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Data Grid 8.4.4
All versions: unaffected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Debezium 2
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Debezium 2
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Debezium 2
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Debezium 3
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Debezium 3
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Debezium 3
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Quarkus
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Quarkus
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat build of Quarkus
All versions: affected
All versions: affected
All versions: affected
All versions: affected
All versions: affected
All versions: affected
All versions: affected
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat Process Automation 7
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat Single Sign-On 7
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat Single Sign-On 7
All versions: affected
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.infinispan.protostream:protostreamGHSA-488m-w9fp-5mm2 (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- RHSA-2023:5396 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5236 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHBZ#2240999 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0004/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
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-2023-3094 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-488m-w9fp-5mm2 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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