CVE-2023-28856

Published: 18 April 2023

Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. Authenticated users can use the `HINCRBYFLOAT` command to create an invalid hash field that will crash Redis on access in affected versions. This issue has been addressed in in versions 7.0.11, 6.2.12, and 6.0.19. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
redis Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (5:4.0.9-1ubuntu0.2+esm4) Available with Ubuntu Pro
	focal	Released (5:5.0.7-2ubuntu0.1+esm2) Available with Ubuntu Pro
	jammy	Released (5:6.0.16-1ubuntu1+esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro
	kinetic	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	lunar	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	mantic	Needs triage
	trusty	Released (2:2.8.4-2ubuntu0.2+esm3) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
	upstream	Released (5:7.0.11-1)
	xenial	Released (2:3.0.6-1ubuntu0.4+esm2) Available with Ubuntu Pro

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1034613

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