GHSA-488m-w9fp-5mm2

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    GHSA-488m-w9fp-5mm2

    Published: 28 Dec 2023Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026
    Aliases:
    CVE-2023-5236

    Summary: Infinispan circular object references causes out of memory errors

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5236, https://github.com/infinispan/protostream/commit/4501b6b307a6bab545346f66238f8be7e42f83eb, https://github.com/infinispan/protostream/commit/4ef66958f2c4890ae1c6a7acd629d27bd88aa4cb, https://github.com/infinispan/protostream/commit/50320b5987dc87bc04b616b87e8cf93472ee19c1, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5396, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5236, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240999, https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan, https://issues.redhat.com/browse/IPROTO-262, https://issues.redhat.com/browse/IPROTO-263, https://issues.redhat.com/browse/ISPN-14534, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0004

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: org.infinispan.protostream:protostream

    Purl: pkg:maven/org.infinispan.protostream/protostream

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.6.2.Final

    Affected versions

    1.0.0.Alpha1
    1.0.0.Alpha2
    1.0.0.Alpha3
    1.0.0.Alpha4
    1.0.0.Alpha5
    1.0.0.Alpha6
    1.0.0.Alpha7
    1.0.0.CR1
    1.0.0.Final
    1.0.1.Final
    1.0.2.Final

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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