CVE-2016-0750

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-138

Description

The hotrod java client in infinispan before 9.1.0.Final automatically deserializes bytearray message contents in certain events. A malicious user could exploit this flaw by injecting a specially-crafted serialized object to attain remote code execution or conduct other attacks.

Affected products

Red Hat infinispan: before 9.1.0 — fixed in 9.1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Red Hat infinispan 9.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101910
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3244
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0501
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-0750
https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/5116
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-7781
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101910
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3244
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0501
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-0750
https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/5116
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-7781

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