CVE-2023-5236 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-5236: Infinispan: circular reference on marshalling leads to dos

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Data Grid 8.4.4
Published December 18, 2023
Last update November 21, 2025

CVSS base score

4.4/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 18, 2023 CVE published
November 21, 2025 Record updated