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CVE-2017-2638

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-306

Description

It was found that the REST API in Infinispan before version 9.0.0 did not properly enforce auth constraints. An attacker could use this vulnerability to read or modify data in the default cache or a known cache name.

Affected products

• Red Hat infinispan: before 9.0.0 — fixed in 9.0.0
• RedHat Jboss Data Grid: 7.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Red Hat infinispan 9.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1097.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97964
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2638
• https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/4936/commits
• https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-7485
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1097.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97964
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2638
• https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/4936/commits
• https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-7485

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