CVE-2021-41099: high-severity vulnerability in redis
Integer overflow issue with strings in Redis
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 3.6%
Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. An integer overflow bug in the underlying string library can be used to corrupt the heap and potentially result with denial of service or remote code execution. The vulnerability involves changing the default proto-max-bulk-len configuration parameter to a very large value and constructing specially crafted network payloads or commands. The problem is fixed in Redis versions 6.2.6, 6.0.16 and 5.0.14. An additional workaround to mitigate the problem without patching the redis-server executable is to prevent users from modifying the proto-max-bulk-len configuration parameter. This can be done using ACL to restrict unprivileged users from using the CONFIG SET command.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
redis · redisRelated CVEs — redis
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2025-49844CRITICALRedis Lua Use-After-Free may lead to remote code executionEPSS 82.6%CVE-2023-36824HIGHHeap overflow in COMMAND GETKEYS and ACL evaluation in RedisEPSS 77.4%CVE-2023-22458MEDIUMInteger overflow in multiple Redis commands can lead to denial-of-serviceEPSS 72.0%CVE-2022-36021MEDIUMRedis string pattern matching can be abused to achieve Denial of ServiceEPSS 59.8%CVE-2023-28425MEDIUMSpecially crafted MSETNX command can lead to denial-of-serviceEPSS 58.5%CVE-2022-24834HIGHHeap overflow issue with the Lua cjson library used by RedisEPSS 41.4%
References
https://github.com/redis/redis/commit/c6ad876774f3cc11e32681ea02a2eead00f2c521https://github.com/redis/redis/security/advisories/GHSA-j3cr-9h5g-6cphhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HTYQ5ZF37HNGTZWVNJD3VXP7I6MEEF42/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VL5KXFN3ATM7IIM7Q4O4PWTSRGZ5744Z/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WR5WKJWXD4D6S3DJCZ56V74ESLTDQRAB/https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-17https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211104-0003/https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5001https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html