Medium severity · published Dec 18, 2023
CVE-2023-5236
A flaw was found in Infinispan, which does not detect circular object references when unmarshalling
6.5
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 66% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DG
Data Grid · Redhat
before 8.4.4 · source: NVD
IN
Infinispan · Infinispan
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
JD
Jboss Data Grid · Redhat
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5236
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5236
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5396
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5236
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240999
security.netapp.com
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0004/
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