CVE-2023-5236
Infinispan circular object references causes out of memory errors
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.10%
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.
How to fix CVE-2023-5236
To remediate CVE-2023-5236, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 4.6.2.Final or later
Is CVE-2023-5236 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 4.6.2.Final
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | 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 |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |