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CVE-2023-5236 — A flaw was found in Infinispan, which does not detect circular object references

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

CVSS
4.4 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.10% (top 72.40%)
CWE
—
Published
2023-12-18T13:43:08.445Z
Last modified
2025-11-21T05:57:06.838Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Red HatRed Hat Data Grid 8.4.4unspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3unspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3unspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3unspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4unspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4unspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4unspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Debezium 2unspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Debezium 2unspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Debezium 2unspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Debezium 3unspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Debezium 3unspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Debezium 3unspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Quarkusunspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Quarkusunspecified
Red HatRed Hat build of Quarkusunspecified
Red HatRed Hat Data Grid 8unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Data Grid 8unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Data Grid 8unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Data Grid 8unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Fuse 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Fuse 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Fuse 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8unspecified
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8unspecified
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8unspecified
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8unspecified
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Packunspecified
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Packunspecified
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Packunspecified
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Packunspecified
Red HatRed Hat Process Automation 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Single SignOn 7 — unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Single SignOn 7 — unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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