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CVE-2018-12453 in the critical feed json

Type confusion in the xgroupCommand function in t_stream.c in redis-server in Redis before 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause denial-of-s…

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-4424

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
23.1%
EPSS 23.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Type confusion in the xgroupCommand function in t_stream.c in redis-server in Redis before 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause denial-of-service via an XGROUP command in which the key is not a stream.

Patch / fix

  • redislabs redis 5.0

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red hat product security vex CVE-2018-12453 updated cvss 4.3

redis: type confusion in the xgroupCommand function in t_stream.c

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 grafana Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 redis Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) redis Red Hat Fuse 7 camel-spring-redis Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 camel-spring-redis Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4 rhmap-redis-docker
    +8 more products
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) Operational Tools redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) Operational Tools redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) redis Red Hat Software Collections rh-redis32-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

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-44908)

Exploit prediction

23.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-44908 Redis 5.0 - Denial of Service dos, 2018-06-20
  • gist.github.com https://gist.github.com/fakhrizulkifli/34a56d575030682f6c564553c53b82b5 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-704 Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast
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References

Sources

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