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    CVE-2023-5236

    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.

    Published:Sep 27, 2023
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2025
    EPS:Dec 18, 2023
    EPSS Score:0.00717
    CVSS Score:4.4

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Infinispan
    Product
    Infinispan
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Camel Quarkus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Camel Spring Boot
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Data Grid
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Debezium
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Data Grid
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Enterprise Application Platform
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Enterprise Bpms Platform
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Fuse
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jbosseapxp
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Quarkus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Red Hat Single Sign On

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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