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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2020-25711 json

Improper Access Control in infinispan-server-runtime

published 2020-12-03 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-8674-26jc-wh98 , EUVD-2022-0906

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in infinispan 10 REST API, where authorization permissions are not checked while performing some server management operations. When authz is enabled, any user with authentication can perform operations like shutting down the server without the ADMIN role.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.infinispan:infinispan-core 11.0.6.Final
  • infinispan infinispan 11.0.6

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-2020-25711 updated cvss 5.9

infinispan: authorization check missing for server management operations

  • Red Hat Data Grid 8.1.1
    fixed: vendor fix “There is currently no known mitigation for this issue.” RHSA-2021:0433
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 infinispan-rest infinispan-rest Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 infinispan-rest infinispan-rest Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 infinispan-rest infinispan-rest Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 infinispan-rest infinispan-rest Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 infinispan-rest infinispan-rest
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.infinispan:infinispan-core
<11.0.6.Final
11.0.6.Final

Affected products

  • n/a infinispan

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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