CVE-2023-5236

MEDIUM

Redhat Data Grid < 8.4.4 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5396
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5236
Issue Tracking issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240999

Scores

CVSS v3 4.4
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 27.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (4)
infinispan/infinispan
org.infinispan.protostream/protostream 0 - 4.6.2.FinalMaven
redhat/data_grid < 8.4.4
redhat/jboss_data_grid
Published Dec 18, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026