Vulnerability · Published Oct 4, 2021 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2021-32628Vulnerability in handling large ziplists

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity integer overflow in redis from redis. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 13.5% (higher than 96% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)13.5%top 3.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8redis5.0.3-5.module_el8.4.0+2583+b9845322ALSA-2021:3918
AlmaLinux:8redis5.0.3-5.module_el8.5.0+66+fc19ec12ALSA-2021:3918
AlmaLinux:8redis6.0.9-5.module_el8.5.0+67+a3c431d9ALSA-2021:3945
AlmaLinux:8redis6.0.9-5.module_el8.4.0+2584+1bb0d2aaALSA-2021:3945
AlmaLinux:8redis-devel6.0.9-5.module_el8.4.0+2584+1bb0d2aaALSA-2021:3945
AlmaLinux:8redis-devel6.0.9-5.module_el8.5.0+67+a3c431d9ALSA-2021:3945
AlmaLinux:8redis-devel5.0.3-5.module_el8.5.0+66+fc19ec12ALSA-2021:3918
AlmaLinux:8redis-devel5.0.3-5.module_el8.4.0+2583+b9845322ALSA-2021:3918
AlmaLinux:8redis-doc5.0.3-5.module_el8.4.0+2583+b9845322ALSA-2021:3918
AlmaLinux:8redis-doc6.0.9-5.module_el8.4.0+2584+1bb0d2aaALSA-2021:3945
Alpine:v3.20redis6.2.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-32628
Alpine:v3.21redis6.2.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-32628
Alpine:v3.22redis6.2.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-32628
Alpine:v3.23redis6.2.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-32628
Alpine:v3.24redis6.2.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-32628
Debian:12redis5:6.0.16-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-32628
Debian:13redis5:6.0.16-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-32628
Debian:14redis5:6.0.16-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-32628
Rocky Linux:8redis0:6.0.9-5.module+el8.4.0+660+a8447b97RLSA-2021:3945
Rocky Linux:8redis0:6.0.9-5.module+el8.5.0+658+72172854RLSA-2021:3945
Rocky Linux:8redis0:5.0.3-5.module+el8.4.0+659+cf535ef1RLSA-2021:3918
Rocky Linux:8redis0:5.0.3-5.module+el8.5.0+657+2674830eRLSA-2021:3918

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
redis redis >= 6.2.0, < 6.2.6>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.16< 5.0.14

Weakness: CWE-190, CWE-680 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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