Critical severity · published Jun 17, 2018
CVE-2018-11218
Memory Corruption was discovered in the cmsgpack library in the Lua subsystem in Redis before 3.2.12, 4.x before 4.0.10, and 5.x before 5.0 RC2 because of stack-based buffer…
9.8
CVSS
58.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Memory Corruption was discovered in the cmsgpack library in the Lua subsystem in Redis before 3.2.12, 4.x before 4.0.10, and 5.x before 5.0 RC2 because of stack-based buffer overflows.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)58.8% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RE
Redis · Redis
before 3.2.12; 4.0 before 4.0.10; 5.0 · source: NVD
CO
Communications Operations Monitor · Oracle
3.4; 4.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
OP
Openstack · Redhat
10; 13 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11218
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11218
Exploit
http://antirez.com/news/119
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104553
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0052
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0094
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1860
Exploit
https://github.com/antirez/redis/commit/52a00201fca331217c3b4b8b634f6a0f57d6b7d3
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