{"id":"CVE-2023-5236","aliases":[],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/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.","published":"2023-12-28T21:30:37Z","modified":"2026-09-10T03:49:59.273723237Z","cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"epss":{"score":0.0089,"percentile":0.5745,"asOf":"2026-09-15"},"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":0,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.infinispan.protostream:protostream","fixedVersion":"4.6.2.Final"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/infinispan/protostream/commit/4501b6b307a6bab545346f66238f8be7e42f83eb","label":"infinispan/protostream@4501b6b"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5236"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/infinispan/protostream/commit/4501b6b307a6bab545346f66238f8be7e42f83eb"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/infinispan/protostream/commit/4ef66958f2c4890ae1c6a7acd629d27bd88aa4cb"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/infinispan/protostream/commit/50320b5987dc87bc04b616b87e8cf93472ee19c1"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5396"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5236"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240999"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://issues.redhat.com/browse/IPROTO-262"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://issues.redhat.com/browse/IPROTO-263"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://issues.redhat.com/browse/ISPN-14534"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0004"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-09-10T03:49:59.273723237Z"}}