CVE-2023-5384
Infinispan: credentials returned from configuration as clear text
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
A flaw was found in Infinispan. When serializing the configuration for a cache to XML/JSON/YAML, which contains credentials (JDBC store with connection pooling, remote store), the credentials are returned in clear text as part of the configuration.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low2.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.54% · top 54% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Data Grid 8.4.6
All versions: unaffected
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.infinispan:infinispan-cachestore-jdbcGHSA-gg57-587f-h5v6 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.infinispan:infinispan-cachestore-jdbc-commonGHSA-gg57-587f-h5v6 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.infinispan:infinispan-cachestore-remoteGHSA-gg57-587f-h5v6 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.infinispan:infinispan-cachestore-sqlGHSA-gg57-587f-h5v6 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.infinispan:infinispan-client-hotrodGHSA-gg57-587f-h5v6 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.infinispan:infinispan-commonsGHSA-gg57-587f-h5v6 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.infinispan:infinispan-coreGHSA-gg57-587f-h5v6 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.infinispan:infinispan-hotrodGHSA-gg57-587f-h5v6 (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Workaround: The issue's impact is limited because only users with administrator permissions can retrieve the cache configurations, and the recommended approach for connecting via JDBC is using the `datasource` configuration, which does not expose the database credentials.
References (4)
- RHSA-2023:7676 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5384 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHBZ#2242156 (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-gg57-587f-h5v6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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