6.5

CVE-2023-5236: infinispan

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesCGA-9855-p6w3-8pr8CGA-jmg8-65xf-hh85CGA-jqq7-p73f-6hvh
Published 18-12-2023Last modified 21-11-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-5236 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in infinispan. EPSS estimates a 1.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.11%
0%100%
Low · +0.22 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Related 1
CGA-JR9Q-7F52-4RWW

Timeline

  1. 18-12-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 21-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.11%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

65%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.22 pp

From 0.89% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.11%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Chainguard3 products
  • infinispan-15.0< 15.0.21-r1
  • infinispan-15.1< 15.1.7-r3
  • infinispan-15.2< 15.2.6-r1
Redhat2 products
Infinispan1 product
Org.infinispan.protostream1 product
  • protostream< 4.6.2.Final

4 vendors · 7 products

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