Java: Infinispan Unmarshal OOM DoS from Circular Object Ref
CVE-2023-5236 Published on December 18, 2023

Infinispan: circular reference on marshalling leads to dos
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.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2023-5236 is exploitable with network access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
HIGH
Privileges Required:
HIGH
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
NONE
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Timeline

Reported to Red Hat.

Made public. 188 days later.


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Affected Versions

Red Hat Data Grid 8.4.4: Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3: Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3: Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3: Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4: Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4: Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4: Red Hat build of Debezium 2: Red Hat build of Debezium 2: Red Hat build of Debezium 2: Red Hat build of Debezium 3: Red Hat build of Debezium 3: Red Hat build of Debezium 3: Red Hat build of Quarkus: Red Hat build of Quarkus: Red Hat build of Quarkus: Red Hat Data Grid 8: Red Hat Data Grid 8: Red Hat Data Grid 8: Red Hat Data Grid 8: Red Hat Fuse 7: Red Hat Fuse 7: Red Hat Fuse 7: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack: Red Hat Process Automation 7: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.10%
Percentile
27.99%

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