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CVE-2021-32628

Vulnerability in handling large ziplists

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.2.6, 6.0.16, 5.0.14
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. An integer overflow bug in the ziplist data structure used by all versions of Redis can be exploited to corrupt the heap and potentially result with remote code execution. The vulnerability involves modifying the default ziplist configuration parameters (hash-max-ziplist-entries, hash-max-ziplist-value, zset-max-ziplist-entries or zset-max-ziplist-value) to a very large value, and then constructing specially crafted commands to create very large ziplists. The problem is fixed in Redis versions 6.2.6, 6.0.16, 5.0.14. An additional workaround to mitigate the problem without patching the redis-server executable is to prevent users from modifying the above configuration parameters. This can be done using ACL to restrict unprivileged users from using the CONFIG SET command.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated
  3. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • redis redis

    From 6.2.0 · fixed in 6.2.6; From 6.0.0 · fixed in 6.0.16; fixed in 5.0.14

References 9

GitHub · redis/redis

lists.fedoraproject.org

debian.org

oracle.com

security.netapp.com

security.gentoo.org