ghsa-488m-w9fp-5mm2
Vulnerability from github
Published
2023-12-28 21:30
Modified
2024-11-18 16:26
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.1 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
Infinispan circular object references causes out of memory errors
Details

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.

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{
   affected: [
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "Maven",
            name: "org.infinispan.protostream:protostream",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "4.6.2.Final",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
   ],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2023-5236",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-1047",
      ],
      github_reviewed: true,
      github_reviewed_at: "2024-09-16T21:37:34Z",
      nvd_published_at: "2023-12-18T14:15:10Z",
      severity: "HIGH",
   },
   details: "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.",
   id: "GHSA-488m-w9fp-5mm2",
   modified: "2024-11-18T16:26:34Z",
   published: "2023-12-28T21:30:37Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5236",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/infinispan/protostream/commit/4501b6b307a6bab545346f66238f8be7e42f83eb",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/infinispan/protostream/commit/4ef66958f2c4890ae1c6a7acd629d27bd88aa4cb",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/infinispan/protostream/commit/50320b5987dc87bc04b616b87e8cf93472ee19c1",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5396",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5236",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240999",
      },
      {
         type: "PACKAGE",
         url: "https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/IPROTO-262",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/IPROTO-263",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/ISPN-14534",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0004",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
      {
         score: "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
         type: "CVSS_V4",
      },
   ],
   summary: "Infinispan circular object references causes out of memory errors",
}


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