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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2018-1131 json

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Infinispan

published 2018-05-15 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-qqfc-m9hc-pqv3 , EUVD-2022-5015

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 68%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Infinispan permits improper deserialization of trusted data via XML and JSON transcoders under certain server configurations. A user with authenticated access to the server could send a malicious object to a cache configured to accept certain types of objects, achieving code execution and possible further attacks. Versions 9.0.3.Final, 9.1.7.Final, 8.2.10.Final, 9.2.2.Final, 9.3.0.Alpha1 are believed to be affected.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.infinispan:infinispan-core 9.3.1.Final

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-1131 updated cvss 7.5

infinispan: deserialization of data in XML and JSON transcoders

  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 infinispan
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 infinispan-core Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 camel
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 infinispan
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes infinispan
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Data Grid
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:1833
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.5.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:3892
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 infinispan Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 infinispan Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 infinispan
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

1.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.infinispan:infinispan-core
1 listed version
>=9.3.0.Alpha1, <9.3.1.Final
9.3.1.Final

Affected products

  • Red Hat, Inc. infinispan

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-349 Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.