Infinispan: circular reference on marshalling leads to dos

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.

Affected products

• Red Hat · Red Hat Data Grid 8.4.4

  All versions: unaffected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Debezium 2

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Debezium 2

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Debezium 2

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Debezium 3

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Debezium 3

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Debezium 3

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Quarkus

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Quarkus

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of Quarkus

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Data Grid 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Data Grid 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Data Grid 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Data Grid 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Fuse 7

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Fuse 7

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Fuse 7

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Process Automation 7

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Single Sign-On 7

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Single Sign-On 7

  All versions: affected

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.infinispan.protostream:protostreamGHSA-488m-w9fp-5mm2 (opens in a new tab)

References (4)

• RHSA-2023:5396 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5236 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHBZ#2240999 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0004/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-488m-w9fp-5mm2 (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Nov 2026, 13:41 UTC.