Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate with BULK_READ permission
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ExploitSubmit Ickle query with deeply nested predicates
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ExecutionRecursive parser exhausts Java thread stack
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ImpactUncaught StackOverflowError degrades availability
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Recursion depth limits
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an authenticated account that holds the BULK_READ permission and the ability to submit an Ickle cache query to Infinispan / Red Hat Data Grid; the attacker must supply a query with deeply nested predicates to drive recursive parsing into stack exhaustion. Limiting factors: valid authentication plus the specific BULK_READ grant are mandatory (not available to anonymous or unprivileged users), and the impact is confined to availability with no data exposure or modification. The sources do not state how many nesting levels are needed or whether the error affects a single request, the node, or the cluster, so the severity of the resulting outage is unverified. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-to-moderate priority issue, consistent with its CVSS 4.3 (Medium) rating, not a high-severity emergency. The CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L shows network reach and low attack complexity but requires low-level authentication (PR:L) and yields only limited availability impact (A:L) with no confidentiality or integrity loss - matching the description, which requires an authenticated user holding the BULK_READ permission who can submit cache queries. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or PoC is present in the input, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation. The vuln.today decision label is 'this_month', indicating routine scheduled remediation rather than urgent action. The practical ceiling is a single uncaught StackOverflowError affecting availability; the description does not state whether this crashes a thread, a node, or the whole service, so the true blast radius is unverified. Overall this is a real but modest denial-of-service hardening issue gated behind both authentication and a specific permission, not a drop-everything priority. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who already holds a low-privilege account with the BULK_READ permission on a Data Grid / Infinispan deployment crafts an Ickle query containing deeply nested predicates and submits it. The recursive query parser consumes the Java thread stack and throws an uncaught StackOverflowError, degrading availability for that query path. No public PoC or exploit code is referenced in the available sources. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 30, 2026
Stack exhaustion in the Ickle query parser shipped in Infinispan and its Red Hat product builds lets an authenticated user who holds the BULK_READ permission submit a cache query with deeply nested predicates, driving recursive parsing until the Java thread stack is exhausted and an uncaught StackOverflowError is thrown. Impact is limited to availability (CVSS 4.3, A:L) - there is no data exposure or modification - and the attacker must already possess a valid account plus the specific BULK_READ grant. A public PoC reference exists in the form of the Red Hat Bugzilla record; no public exploit code has been confirmed and no EPSS score was supplied, and the vuln.today decision label places this in the this_month queue rather than an emergency response.
RemediationAI
The supplied intelligence does not identify a fixed version, so the primary action is to track the Red Hat advisory at https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-119542 and Bugzilla 2563902 for the patched Data Grid 8, JBoss EAP 8, EAP Expansion Pack, Fuse 7 and Camel 4 for Quarkus 3 builds, and upgrade as soon as errata name an exact version; the vendor advisory should be treated as authoritative over any version inferred here. Until then, the most direct compensating control is to review and narrow BULK_READ grants so that only trusted, non-anonymous principals can submit Ickle cache queries, with the trade-off that legitimate read-heavy clients lose query access or must be re-provisioned through a privileged service account. Where query submission is network-reachable, restricting it to trusted subnets or an API gateway preserves business traffic but adds a hop and a single point of failure, and any depth-limiting or query-size enforcement should be applied only if the deployment stack exposes such a control, since the vulnerability data does not specify a safe nesting threshold. Monitoring for repeated query-parsing failures and StackOverflowError entries in server logs provides detection coverage but is not a preventative fix, and the sources do not state whether the error affects a single request, the node, or the whole cluster, so availability impact should be scoped per deployment.
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The flaw is an instance of CWE-674 (Uncontrolled Recursion) in Ickle, the query language used to express cache queries in Infinispan. When a query contains deeply nested predicates, the parser recurses once per nesting level, and because each frame consumes Java thread stack space, a sufficiently deep expression terminates parsing with a StackOverflowError. That error is an Error rather than an Exception, so handlers that catch Exception will not intercept it, matching the reported 'uncaught StackOverflowError' behaviour. The supplied CPE data shows the parser is reachable through several Red Hat distributions of the technology: red_hat_data_grid_8, red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform_8, red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform_expansion_pack, red_hat_fuse_7, and red_hat_build_of_apache_camel_4_for_quarkus_3. Those CPE entries use wildcard versions, so the exact affected builds are not pinned by the intelligence provided, and the sources do not state how many nesting levels are required, nor whether the resulting error is confined to the offending request, the serving node, or propagates cluster-wide.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Query is submitted over the network (AV:N) with no special timing (AC:L), but the BULK_READ permission makes it authenticated (PR:L); only availability is affected (A:L), with no C or I impact.
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CVSS VectorVendor: redhat
DescriptionCVE.org
A flaw was found in the Ickle query parser in Infinispan. A query containing deeply nested predicates can cause recursive parsing to exhaust the Java thread stack and throw an uncaught StackOverflowError. An authenticated user with BULK_READ permission who can submit a cache query may trigger the issue, potentially affecting availability.
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