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CVE-2017-2638

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-2638 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in the REST API of Infinispan versions prior to 9.0.0, affecting Infinispan, JBoss Data Grid, and Red Hat products utilizing these. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) allows an unauthenticated attacker to read or modify data in default or known caches due to improper enforcement of authentication constraints. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:infinispan:infinispan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_data_grid:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.5
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0156 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.infinispan:infinispan-server-coreFixed in: 9.0.0
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7.1
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6Fixed in: rest

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-mvxp-3j62-jqr6medium

Infinispan Rest API Does Not Enforce Auth Constraints

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2017-2638Moderate

infinispan: auth bypass in REST api

Apr 19, 2017

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-1097.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / infinispan/infinispan/pull/4936/commits
PatchThird Party Advisory
issues.jboss.org / browse/ISPN-7485
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/97964
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry