CVE-2021-32628CWE-190CWE-680

Vulnerability in handling large ziplists

High · published October 4, 2021

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
14%
Percentile
96.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.13530 · 96.4th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound; CWE-680 · Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow
Published
2021-10-04T17:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 OCT 17:35Z
    Vulnerability in handling large ziplists
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