CVE-2021-32675 Information

Description

Redis is an open source in-memory database that persists on disk. When parsing an incoming Redis Standard Protocol (RESP) request Redis allocates memory according to user-specified values which determine the number of elements (in the multi-bulk header) and size of each element (in the bulk header). An attacker delivering specially crafted requests over multiple connections can cause the server to allocate significant amount of memory. Because the same parsing mechanism is used to handle authentication requests this vulnerability can also be exploited by unauthenticated users. The problem is fixed in Redis versions 6.2.6 6.0.16 and 5.0.14. An additional workaround to mitigate this problem without patching the redis-server executable is to block access to prevent unauthenticated users from connecting to Redis. This can be done in different ways: Using network access control tools like firewalls iptables security groups etc. or Enabling TLS and requiring users to authenticate using client side certificates.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://github.com/redis/redis/commit/5674b0057ff2903d43eaff802017eddf37c360f8 https://github.com/redis/redis/security/advisories/GHSA-f6pw-v9gw-v64p https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VL5KXFN3ATM7IIM7Q4O4PWTSRGZ5744Z/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HTYQ5ZF37HNGTZWVNJD3VXP7I6MEEF42/ https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra603ff6e04549d7f290f61f9b11e2d2e4dba693b05ff053f4ec6bc47@%3Cnotifications.geode.apache.org%3E https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211104-0003/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WR5WKJWXD4D6S3DJCZ56V74ESLTDQRAB/ https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5001 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5