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CVE-2018-11218 in the critical feed json

Memory Corruption was discovered in the cmsgpack library in the Lua subsystem in Redis before 3.2.12, 4.x before 4.0.10, and 5.x before 5.0…

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-3258

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
58.8%
EPSS 58.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
1
Metasploit

Summary

Memory Corruption was discovered in the cmsgpack library in the Lua subsystem in Redis before 3.2.12, 4.x before 4.0.10, and 5.x before 5.0 RC2 because of stack-based buffer overflows.

Patch / fix

  • redislabs redis 3.2.12, 4.0.10
  • redis Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5:4.0.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11218

  • redis Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2:2.8.4-2ubuntu0.2
  • redis Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2:3.0.6-1ubuntu0.2
  • redis Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5:4.0.9-1ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11218

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • rh-redis32-redis RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 3.2.13-1.el6
  • rh-redis32-redis RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 3.2.13-1.el7
  • redis openstack 10 3.0.6-4.el7ost
  • redis openstack 13 3.2.8-3.el7ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:1860RHSA-2019:0052RHSA-2019:0094

  • redis SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP2 6.0.8-1.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-OU-2020:3291-1

  • redis openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.2.5-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11299-1

  • redis Alpine 3.6, Alpine 3.5 3.2.12-r0
  • redis Alpine 3.7 4.0.10-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-11218

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-11218 updated cvss 6.3

redis: Heap corruption in lua_cmsgpack.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) redis Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) Operational Tools redis Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4 rhmap-redis-docker Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) Operational Tools redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) redis
    +2 more products
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) Operational Tools redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) redis
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 redis 3.0.6-4.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0052
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 redis 3.2.8-3.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0094
  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) rh-redis32-redis 3.2.13-1.el6 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) rh-redis32-redis 3.2.13-1.el7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) rh-redis32-redis 3.2.13-1.el7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) rh-redis32-redis 3.2.13-1.el7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) rh-redis32-redis 3.2.13-1.el7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) rh-redis32-redis 3.2.13-1.el6
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) rh-redis32-redis 3.2.13-1.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1860
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 redis Red Hat Fuse 7 camel-spring-redis Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 camel-spring-redis
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSMA-21-187-01 updated cvss 9.8

Philips Vue PACS (Update B)

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/linux/redis/redis_replication_cmd_exec)

Exploit prediction

58.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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