High severity · published Oct 4, 2021
CVE-2021-32762
Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk
8.8
CVSS
2.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. The redis-cli command line tool and redis-sentinel service may be vulnerable to integer overflow when parsing specially crafted large multi-bulk network replies. This is a result of a vulnerability in the underlying hiredis library which does not perform an overflow check before calling the calloc() heap allocation function. This issue only impacts systems with heap allocators that do not perform their own overflow checks. Most modern systems do and are therefore not likely to be affected. Furthermore, by default redis-sentinel uses the jemalloc allocator which is also not vulnerable. The problem is fixed in Redis versions 6.2.6, 6.0.16 and 5.0.14.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.6% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RE
Redis · Redis
5.0.0 before 5.0.14; 6.0.0 before 6.0.16; 6.2.0 before 6.2.6 · source: NVD
CO
Communications Operations Monitor · Oracle
4.3; 4.4; 5.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0; 11.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
33; 34; 35 · source: NVD
MS
Management Services For Element Software · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
MS
Management Services For Netapp Hci · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32762
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-32762
Patch
https://github.com/redis/redis/commit/0215324a66af949be39b34be2d55143232c1cb71
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/redis/redis/security/advisories/GHSA-833w-8v3m-8wwr
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HTYQ5ZF37HNGTZWVNJD3VXP7I6MEEF42/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VL5KXFN3ATM7IIM7Q4O4PWTSRGZ5744Z/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WR5WKJWXD4D6S3DJCZ56V74ESLTDQRAB/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-17
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