CVE-2021-32761

HIGH

Redis <5.0.13,6.0.15,6.2.5 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. A vulnerability involving out-of-bounds read and integer overflow to buffer overflow exists starting with version 2.2 and prior to versions 5.0.13, 6.0.15, and 6.2.5. On 32-bit systems, Redis `*BIT*` command are vulnerable to integer overflow that can potentially be exploited to corrupt the heap, leak arbitrary heap contents or trigger remote code execution. The vulnerability involves changing the default `proto-max-bulk-len` configuration parameter to a very large value and constructing specially crafted commands bit commands. This problem only affects Redis on 32-bit platforms, or compiled as a 32-bit binary. Redis versions 5.0.`3m 6.0.15, and 6.2.5 contain patches for this issue. 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.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00017.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0004/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00026.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5001
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-17

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.3105
EPSS Percentile 98.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-190 CWE-125 CWE-680
Status published
Products (6)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
debian/debian_linux 11.0
fedoraproject/fedora 33
fedoraproject/fedora 34
redislabs/redis 2.2.0 - 5.0.13
Published Jul 21, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026