CWE-1047
Modules with Circular Dependencies
The product contains modules in which one module has references that cycle back to itself, i.e., there are circular dependencies.
CVE-2023-5236 (GCVE-0-2023-5236)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-18 13:43
Modified
2025-09-25 08:25
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Data Grid 8.4.4 |
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No mitigation information available for this CWE.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.