{"answers":{"affected":"2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.infinispan.protostream:protostream. It affects 3 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5236 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade org.infinispan.protostream:protostream to 4.6.2.Final or later.","what":"CVE-2023-5236 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Red Hat Data Grid 8, published on 18 Dec 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-5236 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-5236 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Red Hat Data Grid 8, published on 18 Dec 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5236 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- org.infinispan.protostream:protostream (Maven): affected all versions; fixed in 4.6.2.Final\n- org.infinispan.protostream:protostream (Maven): affected all versions; fixed in 4.6.2.Final\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5236/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5236/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-5236","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5236/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-5236","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-488m-w9fp-5mm2"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Infinispan data grid","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"An authenticated attacker can cause a denial of service by inserting a malicious object with circular references into the Infinispan cache.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"infinispan","vendor":"infinispan"},{"product":"data_grid","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"jboss_data_grid","vendor":"redhat"}],"cvss":{"score":4.4,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"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.","ecosystems":["Maven"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Infinispan: circular reference on marshalling leads to dos","id":"CVE-2023-5236","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"Maven","product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2023"},"n_packages":2,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Memberlite Shortcodes \u003c 1.3.9 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode","id":"CVE-2023-5237"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Maven","fixed":["4.6.2.Final"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"org.infinispan.protostream:protostream","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-488m-w9fp-5mm2"},{"ecosystem":"Maven","fixed":["4.6.2.Final"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"org.infinispan.protostream:protostream","purl":"pkg:maven/org.infinispan.protostream/protostream","source":"GHSA-488m-w9fp-5mm2"}],"prev":{"headline":"Ovic Responsive WPBakery \u003c 1.2.9 - Subscriber+ Option Update","id":"CVE-2023-5235"},"products":["Red Hat Data Grid 8","Red Hat Data Grid 8.4.4","Red Hat Fuse 7","Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7","Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8","Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack","Red Hat Process Automation 7","Red Hat Single Sign-On 7","Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3","Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4","Red Hat build of Debezium 2","Red Hat build of Debezium 3","Red Hat build of Quarkus"],"published":"2023-12-18","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Infinispan","id":"CVE-2018-1131","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-05-15"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Infinispan","id":"CVE-2017-15089","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-02-15"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code in Infinispan","id":"CVE-2019-10174","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-11-25"},{"cvss_score":7.2,"headline":"Infinispan: credentials returned from configuration as clear text","id":"CVE-2023-5384","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-12-18"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Infispan: rest bulk ops don't check permissions","id":"CVE-2023-3628","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-12-18"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Improper Access Control in infinispan-server-runtime","id":"CVE-2020-25711","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-12-03"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Infinispan Rest API Does Not Enforce Auth Constraints","id":"CVE-2017-2638","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-07-16"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-11-21","vendors":["Red Hat"]},"summary":"An authenticated attacker can cause a denial of service by inserting a malicious object with circular references into the Infinispan cache.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5236/"}