Vulnerability in Infinispan
CVE-2023-5236
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 4.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.011 (66.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 66.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Infinispan
- Red Hat Build Of Apache Camel 4 For Quarkus 3
- Red Hat Build Of Apache Camel For Spring Boot 4
- Red Hat Build Of Debezium 2
- Red Hat Build Of Debezium 3
- Red Hat Build Of Quarkus
- Red Hat Data Grid 8
- Red Hat Fuse 7
- Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform 7
- Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform 8
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5396 (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5236 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (issue-tracking, Issue Tracking)
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2023-5236?
- CVE-2023-5236 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Infinispan. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2023-12-18.
- How severe is CVE-2023-5236?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2023-5236 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.