FKIE_CVE-2023-5236

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-12-18 14:15 - Updated: 2025-09-25 09:15
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5396Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5236Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240999Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5396Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5236Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240999Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0004/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat data_grid *
redhat jboss_data_grid -
infinispan infinispan -
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