CVE-2023-5236

low-risk
Published 2023-12-18

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.07% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 4.4/10 Medium
NETWORK / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (3)

Infinispan

Affected Vendors

Redhat Infinispan

References (7)

Vendor Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5396
Vendor Advisory https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5236
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240999
Vendor Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5396
Vendor Advisory https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5236
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240999
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0004/
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low-risk
Severity 14/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 9/34 · Low